Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
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.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
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.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
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.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
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.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
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.
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 believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
People fail forward to success.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
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.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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'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.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
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.
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.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
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.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someoneýs feelings or ignoring truth.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
You always pass failure on the way to success.
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.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Is there life before death?
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
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.
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.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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.
People fail forward to success.
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.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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 am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
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.'
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Each body has its art...
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
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.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
My friends are my estate.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
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.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
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.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
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.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
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.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
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.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Is there life before death?
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
People fail forward to success.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
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.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
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.
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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
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.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
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.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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?
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 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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.
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.
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.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
My friends are my estate.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
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.
The best way out is always through.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
We are what we repeatedly do.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading 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.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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 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'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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?
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
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 ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
My friends are my estate.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
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