A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Well done is better than well said.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
No.
He who laughs, lasts!
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Our lives teach us who we are.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Never eat more than you can lift.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Someone went upside my head again.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
My home is not a place, it is people.
The average person thinks he isn't.
My friends are my estate.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
No.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Never eat more than you can lift.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
I'd learned my lesson.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
People fail forward to success.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
People fail forward to success.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
All the world's a cage.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
My head rang like a gong.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
People fail forward to success.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
We are what we repeatedly do.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Walking is man's best medicine.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Facts are the enemy of truth.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Memory feeds imagination.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
So little time and so little to do.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
I am not young enough to know everything.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Our lives teach us who we are.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
We are what we repeatedly do.
My home is not a place, it is people.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
I strained around against the crowd and saw Van looking with disgust at an older guy in a nice suit who was kind of smirking at her. She was digging in her purse and I knew what she was digging for.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
I'd learned my lesson.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
My friends are my estate.
A smiling face is half the meal.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Someone went upside my head again.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
All the world's a cage.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
To try to be better is to be better.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
They can conquer who believe they can.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
All the world's a cage.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
My head rang like a gong.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
No.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
Life is consciousness.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Life is consciousness.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
A smiling face is half the meal.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.