By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
A poem is no place for an idea.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
No.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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.
People fail forward to success.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
All movements go too far.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
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.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Maybe they were terrorists!
We are what we repeatedly do.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Our lives teach us who we are.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
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.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Memory feeds imagination.
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.
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.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
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.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
All movements go too far.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
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.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
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.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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'.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Is there life before death?
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
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 truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
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.
Life is consciousness.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
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 I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
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.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
They can conquer who believe they can.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
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.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
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.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
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.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Life is consciousness.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
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.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
I'd learned my lesson.
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.
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.
My friends are my estate.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
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.
Each body has its art...
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
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!
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.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
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 only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
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.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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.
People fail forward to success.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
All the world's a cage.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
All movements go too far.
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.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Our lives teach us who we are.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Vigorous writing is concise.
He who laughs, lasts!
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
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.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
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.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Vigorous writing is concise.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
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.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Art is science made clear.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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.
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.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Well done is better than well said.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
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.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
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.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
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.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
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.
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.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
A smiling face is half the meal.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
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.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
To try to be better is to be better.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
A smiling face is half the meal.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
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.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
He who laughs, lasts!
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.
Someone went upside my head again.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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.
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.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
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.'
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
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.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
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.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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!
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
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.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
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.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Who were these clowns?
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
I'd learned my lesson.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
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.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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?
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
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.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
To try to be better is to be better.
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.
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.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
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.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
I stand in awe of my body.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
All the world's a cage.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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.
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.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
My friends are my estate.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
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.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
People fail forward to success.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Love truth, and pardon error.
We are what we repeatedly do.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
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.
'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.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Someone went upside my head again.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
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.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
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 don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.