[ "I'll be back.", "You talking to me?", "May the Force be with you.", "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.", "The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.", "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.", "He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.", "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.", "Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.", "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.", "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.", "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!", "If you are going through hell, keep going.", "E.T. phone home.", "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.", "He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.", "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.", "I want to be alone.", "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.", "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.", "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!", "I see dead people.", "I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.", "They call me Mister Tibbs!", "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.", "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!", "There are no facts, only interpretations.", "Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.", "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.", "If a man does his best, what else is there?", "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.", "Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.", "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!", "You're gonna need a bigger boat.", "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?", "If you build it, he will come.", "We'll always have Paris.", "But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.", "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.", "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain.", "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.", "You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.", "An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.", "I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.", "I'm walking here! I'm walking here!", "I feel the need - the need for speed!", "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.", "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?", "Well, nobody's perfect.", "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.", "We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.", "The stuff that dreams are made of.", "Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.", "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.", "We have art to save ourselves from the truth.", "I love the smell of napalm in the morning.", "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.", "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship.", "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.", "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.", "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.", "Black holes are where God divided by zero.", "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.", "I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.", "Give me a museum and I'll fill it.", "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.", "Here's looking at you, kid.", "Open the pod bay doors, HAL.", "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?", "Say hello to my little friend!", "Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.", "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.", "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!", "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.", "Round up the usual suspects.", "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.", "Go ahead, make my day.", "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.", "A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.", "Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!", "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.", "There's no crying in baseball!", "What we've got here is failure to communicate.", "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.", "There's no place like home.", "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.", "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.", "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.", "I am big! It's the pictures that got small.", "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.", "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.", "A martini. Shaken, not stirred.", "My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.", "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?", "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.", "I have nothing to declare except my genius.", "How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.", "Dancing is silent poetry.", "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.", "Elementary, my dear Watson.", "Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.", "You can't handle the truth!", "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.", "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.", "We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.", "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!", "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' the pig was 'committed'.", "Houston, we have a problem.", "Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.", "His ignorance is encyclopedic", "Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!", "I'll have what she's having.", "The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.", "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.", "Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, g", "Hasta la vista, baby.", "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!", "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.", "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.", "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.", "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.", "Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.", "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.", "Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.", "Political correctness is tyranny with manners.", "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.", "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!", "Love means never having to say you're sorry.", "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'", "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.", "A boy's best friend is his mother.", "Soylent Green is people!", "Nobody puts Baby in a corner.", "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.", "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.", "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.", "I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.", "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.", "Show me the money!", "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.", "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.", "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.", "After all, tomorrow is another day!", "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.", "I'm king of the world!", "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.", "I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it.", "You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.", "Bond. James Bond.", "Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.", "Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.", "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.", "At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.", "My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.", "It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them.", "That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.", "I don't think there is a proper way to celebrate something which makes you happy.", "Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.", "Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.", "There's some things that people don't admit because they don't like the way it sounds.", "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.", "Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.", "What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.", "Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.", "If you were to go [to the Rijksmuseum], and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.", "A poem is never finished, only abandoned.", "Fall seven times, stand up eight.", "He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful.", "A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.", "I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.", "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.", "[Spring is] when life's alive in everything.", "The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.", "If you observe a really happy man, you will find... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day.", "The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.", "There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.", "Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.", "It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.", "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.", "Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.", "Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.", "My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.", "I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!", "Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.", "Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.", "Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.", "Act as if it were impossible to fail.", "Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.", "There comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it's all just conditioning. It's the rare man who truly know who he is.", "The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.", "I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.", "If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.", "The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.", "Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.", "Love can be sordid only if you work at it.", "No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.", "Exercise is medicine. Literally. Just like a pill, it reliably changes brain function by altering the activity of key brain chemicals and hormones.", "[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.", "In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.", "While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?", "Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.", "When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.", "Acting like someone you're not is exactly what it takes to realize you're capable of more than you ever knew.", "The important thing is not to stop questioning.", "Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it \"the first law of personal growth.\"", "You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.", "Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.", "Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.", "It's not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.", "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.", "I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.", "A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.", "MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.", "Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.", "There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.", "Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.", "Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.", "He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.", "You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.", "The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.", "Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.", "I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.", "Never answer a critic, unless he's right.", "True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.", "Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.", "It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.", "Put up with it and you will get more of it.", "I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.", "When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.", "Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.", "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.", "Make your bargain before beginning to plow.", "I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.", "How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!", "The best way out is always through.", "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.", "When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.", "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.", "There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.", "It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.", "It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.", "I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.", "The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.", "The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.", "Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.", "Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.", "Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.", "Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.", "There's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it. You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.", "A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.", "We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside.", "Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly.", "I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.", "A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.", "Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for.", "You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.", "Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.", "Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.", "I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.", "It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.", "Good food ends with good talk.", "Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.", "Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.", "Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.", "Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.", "What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.", "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.", "I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.", "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.", "Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.", "Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.", "Age is no guarantee of maturity.", "The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.", "Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.", "We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend.", "My computer beat me at chess... so I beat it at kickboxing.", "Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.", "It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.", "There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.", "Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.", "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.", "Ruminating about the past is like trying to drive backward to undo a car accident.", "Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.", "We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.", "You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.", "The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.", "People will buy anything that is one to a customer.", "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.", "Parents are never as bad as kids think they are.", "The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.", "Aspiring to a small business that does what it does very well is a noble pursuit.", "Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.", "The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.", "Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.", "People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.", "Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.", "There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.", "It's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them—that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.", "When anger rises, think of the consequences.", "I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.", "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ", "I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.", "It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.", "The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.", "God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.", "A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.", "The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.", "It's not about vein' mad at everything. It's about bein' REALLY mad at the right stuff.", "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.", "No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.", "When someone wants to lose weight, they will do whatever it takes. They can’t do it for anyone else but themselves. It has to be for them alone. Without that understanding, they will fail.", "Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.", "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.", "Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown [in today's U.S.] as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that she or he has a medical problem. It should not be applied only to the most advanced cases, as is present practice. Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one. The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.", "Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.", "People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.", "But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.", "Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.", "I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.", "The first duty of love is to listen.", "Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.", "I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.", "When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.", "It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.", "A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.", "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.", "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.", "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.", "Walking is man's best medicine.", "Touch your customer, and you're halfway there.", "I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.", "I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.", "Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.", "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.", "Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.", "My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.", "It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.", "I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.", "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.", "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.", "Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.", "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.", "When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.", "Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.", "Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.", "Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.", "You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.", "There's no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.", "Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.", "Joy is not in things; it is in us.", "Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process.", "Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.", "Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.", "Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.", "Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.", "The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.", "Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.", "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.", "It is better to be quotable than to be honest.", "The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.", "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.", "You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.", "Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods, and then year by year, gradually walking home.", "No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.", "If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.", "Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.", "Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.", "Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.", "We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts as our own, but they probably are.", "Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.", "Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.", "It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.", "Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.", "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.", "Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?", "Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.", "Nature abhors a vacuum, but not as much as cats do.", "She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.", "The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity.", "Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.", "It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.", "Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.", "Dance is the hidden language of the soul.", "Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.", "Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.", "I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.", "As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.", "Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.", "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.", "The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.", "Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works.", "The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.", "For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.", "There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.", "Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.", "Memory feeds imagination.", "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.", "You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.", "A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.", "My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.", "A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.", "Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.", "The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.", "Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.", "He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.", "He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch.", "We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.", "Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.", "Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.", "The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.", "Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.", "Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.", "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.", "A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.", "You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.", "Extreme exercise doesn’t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It doesn’t work that way.", "Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.", "It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.", "To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.", "In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.", "You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.", "There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.", "Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from \"won't power\" to \"will power.\"", "But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.", "Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.", "Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.", "Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.", "We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.", "To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.", "Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.", "Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?", "Vote early and vote often.", "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.'", "There is no Them, there is only Us. Some of Us think this or some of Us think that, but we're all Us.", "That's the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself.", "Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.", "The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.", "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.", "To win without risk is to triumph without glory.", "Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.", "That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.", "You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.", "We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.", "Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.", "The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.", "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.", "It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.", "I could prove God statistically.", "I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.", "We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.", "It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.", "Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.", "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.", "Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.", "Respect a man, he will do the more.", "Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.", "Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.", "After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.", "Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.", "Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.", "What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?", "One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong.", "I am just going outside and may be some time.", "An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.", "My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.", "England and America are two countries separated by a common language.", "There ain't no such thing as wrong food.", "When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.", "We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.", "The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.", "Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.", "There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.", "A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.", "Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.", "Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.", "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.", "If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.", "We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.", "I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.", "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.", "Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.", "About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.", "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.", "If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.", "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.", "No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.", "The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.", "People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.", "There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.", "It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.", "Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.", "What we play is life.", "Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.", "No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.", "All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.", "In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.", "Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.", "With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.", "So many people miss out on true talent because they can’t get past a look. At the end of the day, losing weight was easy, but finding talent? Now that’s hard.", "Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.", "Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.", "Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.", "Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.", "In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.", "No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.", "A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?", "The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.", "We could have bought a small yacht with what we spent on our dog an dall the things he destroyed. Then again, how many yachts wait by the door all day for your return?", "There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.", "I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.", "Forever is composed of nows.", "It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.", "Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.", "But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.", "Imitation is the sincerest form of television.", "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.", "Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.", "True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.", "Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.", "Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.", "Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.", "He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.", "How his death hung over that house. It’s part of what I know to be true—your absence is greater than your presence.", "The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.", "Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.", "Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.", "All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.", "Only the mediocre are always at their best.", "That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.", "Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you.", "Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.", "Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soulpower to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.", "Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.", "I couldn’t kill myself, couldn’t let go like so many others had. I wonder if in their last moments they’d changed their minds, but there was no boulder to grab on to.", "Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.", "I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'", "A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.", "Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.", "You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.", "We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it’s about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.", "My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.", "If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.", "I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.", "He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.", "All things are difficult before they are easy.", "It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.", "Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty- five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.", "What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!", "My home is not a place, it is people.", "Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.", "To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.", "There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.", "It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day.", "Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.", "A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.", "Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.", "Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.", "A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.", "It is only the first step that is difficult.", "Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.", "You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.", "My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.", "I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life.", "Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.", "Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.", "I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. For one thing, there's morning sickness. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.", "An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.", "Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.", "Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.", "You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.", "[Spring is] a true reconstructionist.", "Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.", "My friend is one... who take me for what I am.", "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.", "Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.", "The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.", "To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.", "Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.", "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.", "There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.", "I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.", "A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.", "Allowing children to fight their own battles is one of the hardest parenting skills to learn.", "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.", "If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?", "To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.", "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.", "There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.", "No one else can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with arms wide open Today is where your book begins The rest is still unwritten", "Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.", "I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Don’t be angry with me for something good I’ve done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life.", "This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.", "Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.", "If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes. If you still think it's boring, try it for four. If you still think it's boring, try it for eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and so on and so forth. Soon enough you'll find that it's really not boring at all.", "Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.", "I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.", "A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.", "Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.", "A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.", "An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.", "The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.", "I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.", "Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.", "Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.", "Perseverance does not equal worthiness.", "I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.", "O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.", "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.", "I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.", "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.", "You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.", "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.", "In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side.", "Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.", "EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We’re looking for something, though we’re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.", "Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most.", "Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.", "If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.", "Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?", "Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.", "All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.", "It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.", "The price of greatness is responsibility.", "Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.", "Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.", "Concentration is my motto. First honesty, then industry, then concentration.", "The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.", "Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.", "I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.", "Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.", "Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.", "Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.", "We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.", "Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.", "The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.", "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.", "Personally I have struggled massively with the dilemma of talent vs desire. Choosing desire may not always be the easiest thing to do. It may seem a waste to leave those natural talents behind and strike out in a new direction. But at least you’ll feel alive.", "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.", "I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.", "That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.", "Every crowd has a silver lining.", "My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.", "It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.", "Don't tell people to act their age. It's like telling a baby to move out, and if they're older you're telling them to \"die in a hole.\"", "Go, and never darken my towels again.", "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.", "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.", "The unspoken word never does harm.", "I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.", "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.", "A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.", "When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.", "No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.", "The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.", "The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.", "If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.", "To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.", "My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.", "If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.", "One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.", "Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.", "Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.", "Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.", "There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.", "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.", "We are always the same age inside.", "My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.", "You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.", "Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.", "I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.", "There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.", "It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.", "Those whom we support hold us up in life.", "All phone calls are obscene.", "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.", "How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.", "How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.", "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.", "America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.", "A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.", "Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right and you can blow a kneecap off the world.", "There is properly no history, only biography.", "Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.", "The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.", "That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.", "Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.", "If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.", "My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.", "The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.", "We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.", "I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future.", "When children feel they have to earn our love by what they accomplish, they never feel good about themselves, no matter how much they do, no matter what their age. Indeed, some adults work outrageous hours, make huge salaries, and always strive to accomplish more and yet are never satisfied, no matter what they have achieved. This is because they were never given the free, unconditional love of their parents, the love that is every child’s birthright.", "When in doubt, tell the truth.", "For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.", "There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.", "No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.", "Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.", "There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.", "A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.", "Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.", "No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.", "Now that I've relinquished my fantasies of all the people I wish I could be, and stopped feeling guilty about [them], I have more time for the things that I truly enjoy.", "I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.", "Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.", "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.", "Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.", "When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.", "My focus has always been on talent over looks. This theme of people putting an emphasis on looks first has been a constant reminder throughout my life that most people don’t see things in the same way that I do.", "You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.", "No human thing is of serious importance.", "The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.", "We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.", "How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.", "The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.", "Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.", "Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.", "People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.", "Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?", "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.", "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.", "You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.", "Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.", "The only way to have a friend is to be one.", "The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.", "The wisest men follow their own direction.", "Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.", "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.", "Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.", "What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.", "Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.", "I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.", "The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.", "I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.", "People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.", "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.", "There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.", "One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.", "I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.", "To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.", "You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.", "Love truth, and pardon error.", "People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.", "Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.", "When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking.", "Every time we remember to say \"thank you,\" we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.", "It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.", "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.", "There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.", "Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.", "When you own or take responsibility for your feelings, you place yourself in a position of power and control.", "Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.", "Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.", "Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.", "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.", "Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.", "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.", "When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.", "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.", "Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.", "The gods too are fond of a joke.", "Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.", "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.", "The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.", "Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.", "I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.", "I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.", "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.", "Home is where the heart is, so your real home's in your chest.", "A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.", "Imagination is more important than knowledge...", "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.", "People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.", "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.", "If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.", "I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.", "I am never afraid of what I know.", "Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.", "The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.", "Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.", "We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.", "Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.", "He who hesitates is a damned fool.", "I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.", "Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.", "It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.", "Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.", "It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us.", "Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.", "A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.", "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.", "A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.", "There is only one you... Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!", "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.", "Careful. We don't want to learn from this.", "A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?", "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.", "Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.", "Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.", "No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.", "Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.", "Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.", "Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.", "Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.", "It is never too late to give up our prejudices.", "For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.", "The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.", "The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.", "Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.", "There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.", "I'm moving, but don't worry! [Someone once] told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!", "One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.", "A girl phoned me the other day and said \"Come on over, there's nobody home.\" I went over. Nobody was home.", "If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.", "You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.", "No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!", "He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.", "History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.", "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.", "Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.", "She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.", "The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.", "Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.", "It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.", "Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.", "If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.", "Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.", "If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.", "In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about.", "A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.", "Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.", "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.", "Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.", "As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.", "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.", "Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone: that is what I learn as I get old.", "What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one!", "Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.", "The longest journey is the journey inward.", "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.", "You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.", "The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.", "You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.", "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.", "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.", "We are the people our parents warned us about.", "If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.", "Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.", "I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.", "Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.", "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.", "When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.", "Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.", "Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.", "The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.", "I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.", "The body says what words cannot.", "Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.", "The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.", "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.", "True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.", "I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.", "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.", "All movements go too far.", "I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.", "As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.", "What you risk reveals what you value.", "One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.", "Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.", "The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.", "Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)", "Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.", "People who are 'ready' give off a different vibe than people who aren't. Animals can smell fear; maybe that's it. The minute you become ready is the the minute you stop dreaming. Suddenly it's no longer about 'becoming'. Suddenly it's about 'doing'.", "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.", "There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.", "There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.", "Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.", "Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.", "To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.", "There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.", "Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.", "Learn as much by writing as by reading.", "I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.", "One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.", "In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.", "When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.", "The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.", "Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.", "The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.", "The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.", "The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.", "When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.", "A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.", "Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.", "An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.", "Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.", "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.", "To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside; Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd.", "The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.", "Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.", "There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.", "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.", "A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.", "The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.", "Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.", "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'", "A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.", "A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.", "Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.", "I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.", "An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.", "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.", "It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.", "I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.", "Life is just one damned thing after another.", "Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.", "Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.", "Maybe it was only a second of your time, but you need to treasure life, every second.", "What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.", "To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.", "No good deed goes unpunished.", "My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.", "Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.", "Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.", "As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.", "Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.", "Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.", "The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.", "I have not yet met with a sorrow that could not be borne, nor with one who's passing did not leave me stronger.", "Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.", "A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.", "When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.", "Vigorous writing is concise.", "We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?", "The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.", "You don't have to die in order to make a living.", "We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.", "A good listener is usually thinking about something else.", "One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.", "Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, \"Time to change course.\"", "Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.", "I shut my eyes in order to see.", "Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.", "I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.", "Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.", "The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.", "It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.", "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.", "I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.", "The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.", "Desire, ask, believe, receive.", "Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.", "Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.", "A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.", "Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.", "Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.", "Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.", "I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.", "Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.", "Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.", "We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.", "The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.", "The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.", "I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.", "A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.", "There are more of them than us.", "As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.", "I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.", "The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good shit and give it away as fast as you can.", "The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.", "A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.", "A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.", "If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.", "We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.", "Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.", "When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.", "Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.", "When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.", "My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.", "We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.", "My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.", "It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.", "We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.", "Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.", "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.", "What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.", "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.", "Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.", "It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.", "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.", "Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.", "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.", "A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world.", "The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.", "How my achievements mock me!", "I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.", "Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.", "Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money.", "One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.", "Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.", "Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.", "The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.", "That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.", "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.", "Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.", "If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.", "I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.", "Sanity is a madness put to good use.", "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.", "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.", "I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.", "To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.", "The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.", "Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.", "There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.", "The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.", "You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.", "If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.", "Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.", "Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?", "Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.", "The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.", "All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.", "I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.", "The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.", "Dig where the gold is…unless you just need some exercise.", "For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.", "Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.", "I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.", "I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.", "It's never just a game when you're winning.", "Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.", "It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.", "To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.", "One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.", "Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...", "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.", "Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.", "An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.", "Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.", "Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.", "Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.", "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.", "He who would travel happily must travel light.", "Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.", "Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.", "Everything you can imagine is real.", "Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.", "Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.", "When you don't know what to do, get still. Get very still until you do know what to do.", "The truth is rarely pure and never simple.", "I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.", "Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.", "I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.", "I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.", "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.", "In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.", "A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.", "Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.", "The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.", "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.", "An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.", "If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.", "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 right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.", "In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.", "Man is what he eats.", "There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators.", "Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.", "Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.", "None of us is as smart as all of us.", "Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?", "Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.", "We can only learn to love by loving.", "Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.", "Men who never get carried away should be.", "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.", "How could it be? She watched, observed, reflected, and finally determined that this was not a case of fortitude or of resignation only. A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven.", "Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.", "When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'", "There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.", "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.", "Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.", "Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.", "I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.", "Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.", "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.", "When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.", "When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.", "Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.", "Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.", "In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.", "When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.", "Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.", "Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.", "Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.", "It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.", "Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.", "Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.", "A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.", "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.", "Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.", "Adversity does teach who your real friends are.", "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.", "Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.", "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.", "The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.", "Voices that loud are always meant to bully. Do not be bullied. Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and, yes your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.", "Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.", "Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?", "A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.", "I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.", "We made a solemn vow not to take any job outside of show business. We borrowed money from parents and friends, rather than take that lethal job waiting tables. This forced us to take any job offered to us. Anything. We once did a show in the middle of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia as part of a fashion show on a hot July night while all around our stage, a race-riot was fully underway. That's how serious we were about our vow.", "We only know of one duty, and that is to love.", "The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.", "I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.", "Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.", "Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.", "Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.", "Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.", "I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.", "Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.", "If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.", "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.", "I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.", "I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.", "To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.", "Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.", "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.", "[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.", "Laughter is inner jogging.", "A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.", "Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.", "Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.", "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.", "The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.", "Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.", "Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.", "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.", "If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.", "I love acting. It is so much more real than life.", "In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.", "A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.", "Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.", "Why not be happy after a while? You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to get happy.", "To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.", "The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.", "The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.", "We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.", "Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.", "He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.", "Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.", "The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.", "We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.", "If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.", "Play by the rules, but be ferocious.", "The family is the country of the heart.", "The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.", "Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.", "You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.", "Make a decision, even if it's wrong.", "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.", "That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.", "Never have children, only grandchildren.", "We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.", "Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.", "God must become an activity in our consciousness.", "Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.", "We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.", "Let's assume that each person has an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different. To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.", "Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.", "The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.", "I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.", "The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.", "Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.", "Behind every great fortune there is a crime.", "Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.", "Reading is no substitute for action.", "Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.", "Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.", "Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.", "Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.", "It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.", "The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.", "Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.", "Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.", "Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.", "Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.", "The great god Ra whose shrine once covered acres Is filler now for crossword-puzzle makers.", "What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.", "Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.", "I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.", "Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.", "There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.", "While there's life, there's hope.", "I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.", "Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.", "The fact is, the old clich%uFFFDs work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clich%uFFFDs are clean and tidy.", "The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.", "Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield.", "Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.", "The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings… As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we become.", "Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.", "Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.", "The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.", "Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.", "Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.", "The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.", "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.", "Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.", "I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.", "When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.", "When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.", "Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.", "I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck.", "Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.", "Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.", "Knowledge is power.", "You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.", "I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.", "I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.", "One must desire something to be alive.", "Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.", "Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.", "I read part of it all the way through.", "Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.", "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.", "If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.", "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.", "Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.", "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.", "Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.", "The best mirror is an old friend.", "The best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.", "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.", "A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.", "[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.", "I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.", "Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.", "One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.", "The graveyards are full of indispensable men.", "I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.", "There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.", "The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.", "After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.", "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.", "I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.", "If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.", "Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.", "Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.", "Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.", "...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.", "To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.", "She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.", "Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.", "Total absence of humor renders life impossible.", "I like life. It's something to do.", "Everybody is too busy with their own lives to give a damn about your book, painting, screenplay etc, especially if you haven't sold it yet. And the ones that aren't, you don't want in your life anyway.", "Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.", "The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, you will eventually lose touch with your own humanity.", "More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.", "We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.", "The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.", "An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.", "The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!", "What's another word for Thesaurus?", "The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.", "You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.", "I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.", "A waist is a terrible thing to mind.", "Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?", "The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.", "You suffer a lot more hiding something than if you face up to it.", "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.", "If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.", "The more you know, the less you need.", "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.", "I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones? The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet.", "The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.", "As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.", "First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.", "The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.", "If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?", "In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.", "Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.", "The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.", "Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.", "He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.", "You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.", "Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.", "I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.", "I have read your book and much like it.", "There is one person in charge of every office in America and that person is Charles Darwin.", "It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.", "I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.", "I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.", "I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.", "Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.", "It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.", "Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.", "All science is either physics or stamp collecting.", "If the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams.", "I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.", "If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.", "Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.", "Is there life before death?", "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.", "Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.", "Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.", "Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.", "I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.", "Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.", "When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.", "Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.", "Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.", "Why be a man when you can be a success?", "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.", "It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.", "It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.", "When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.", "What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.", "Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.", "That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.", "Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.", "A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.", "When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.", "People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.", "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.", "Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.", "Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.", "The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.", "It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.", "But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.", "Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.", "In an argument, you have to learn to control your emotions. The other person is the revolver, but you are the trigger. The revolver won't hurt you as long as the trigger isn't pulled.", "The meal is not over when I'm full. The meal is over when I hate myself.", "You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.", "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.", "Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night.", "The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.", "Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.", "There's no correlation between creativity and equipment ownership. None. Zilch. Nada. Actually, as the artist gets more into his thing, and as he gets more successful, his number of tools tends to go down. He knows what works for him. Expending mental energy on stuff wastes time.", "We can’t let our insecurities own or destroy us. We have to face them head-on. That was part of the challenge that motivated me to take this journey. I wanted to see what I could do and, more important, I wanted to understand everything that was holding me back.", "An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.", "It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.", "Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.", "As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.", "You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.", "What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.", "A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.", "No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.", "All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.", "It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.", "It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.", "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.", "People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.", "Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.", "Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.", "By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.", "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.", "If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.", "A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.", "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.", "Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.", "Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.", "To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.", "When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.", "I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.", "The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.", "No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.", "Guns don't kill people. People who say \"Guns don't kill people\" kill people. With guns.", "My Karma ran over your dogma.", "Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.", "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.", "Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.", "Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.", "All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.", "When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.", "Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.", "Fostering a spirit of cooperation with your ex means laying down your weapons in the war of divorce in order to protect your children.", "A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.", "To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold.", "The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.", "To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.", "One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.", "'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.", "It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.", "If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.", "A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.", "I have such poor vision I can date anybody.", "May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting.", "Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.", "Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.", "Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.", "Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.", "I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.", "An honor is not diminished for being shared.", "Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.", "It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.", "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", "Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.", "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)", "When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.", "Did I ever tell you about a nasty habit that flight attendants pick up on the job? We learn to always keep smiling, even when we're out of Bloody Mary Mix.", "Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.", "Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.", "At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.", "To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.", "I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.", "This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.", "The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.", "Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.", "A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.", "Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.", "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.", "The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.", "I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.", "Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.", "The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.", "This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.", "Conceit is God's gift to little men.", "Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.", "Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.", "People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.", "One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.", "Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.", "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.", "Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.", "What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.", "I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.", "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.", "The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.", "Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.", "One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.", "Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.", "Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.", "You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.", "This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.", "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.", "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.", "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.", "Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.", "Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.", "So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.", "The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.", "If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.", "Grief does not change you, it reveals you.", "There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.", "With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.", "A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience.", "My toughest fight was with my first wife.", "I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.", "I stand in awe of my body.", "Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.", "I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to have someone to spill your sorrows to.", "The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.", "I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.", "Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.", "To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.", "It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.", "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.", "Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.", "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.", "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.", "At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.", "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.", "Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.", "If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.", "Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.", "One of the common causes of serious difficulty takes the form of parental self-discovery. The newly adopted child brings out submerged feelings or behavior in his parents that make them dislike themselves. This can be such a severe blow to their self- esteem that they must eradicate the cause of their distress. Sometimes the only way that parents are able to do that is by returning the child.", "Our children change us... whether they live or not.", "Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.", "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.", "It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.", "Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.", "At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.", "I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.", "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.", "So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.", "One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.", "Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.", "Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.", "Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.", "If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.", "A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.", "What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?", "Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?", "Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it. It's your freedom that will get you to where you want to go.", "People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.", "What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.", "I dwell in possibility...", "Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.", "Let's have some new cliches.", "Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.", "Be gentle with the young.", "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.", "We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!", "Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.", "The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.", "Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.", "Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.", "Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.", "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.", "Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.", "Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.", "Put your whole self into it, and you will find your true voice. Hold back and you won't. It's that simple.", "Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.", "I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow.", "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.", "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.", "Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.", "If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.", "Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.", "If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.", "If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.", "Men are born to succeed, not fail.", "Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.", "When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.", "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.", "Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.", "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.", "The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.", "It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.", "Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.", "The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.", "Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.", "Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.", "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.", "Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.", "We're all in this alone.", "People age even when you're not looking.", "A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.", "Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.", "We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.", "The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.", "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.", "The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain.", "Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.", "In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.", "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.", "If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.", "You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.", "To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want to go before you can get there. Keep collecting evidence for your success. You can believe it, and you can be it.", "Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.", "I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.", "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.", "There is no silver bullet and frankly you probably don’t need one. It is far more important to be able to find the right kind of gun, be able to load the gun … and perhaps most importantly, be able to figure out where the werewolf is.", "Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me ... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather.", "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.", "If you have the creative urge, it isn't going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you accept the fact.", "No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.", "There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.", "The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.", "A good home must be made, not bought.", "Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?", "Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.", "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. ", "Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.", "We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.", "An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.", "Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe... combat some of the ugliness in the world.", "Desire creates the power.", "Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.", "The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.", "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.", "Good habits result from resisting temptation.", "A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.", "Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.", "It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.", "This book fills a much-needed gap.", "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.", "Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.", "Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.", "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.", "The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.", "In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.", "Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don’t.", "I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.", "People find life entirely too time-consuming.", "It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.", "Here's a tip to avoid death by celebrity: First off, get a life. They can't touch you if you're out doing something interesting.", "Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.", "A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.", "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.", "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.", "It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.", "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.", "Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.", "If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.", "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.", "Ask advice only of your equals.", "'Wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.", "The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.", "Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.", "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.", "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.", "The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.", "Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.", "If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.", "The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.", "Worrying helps you some—it seems as if you were doing something when you're worrying.", "A good friend of my son's is a son to me.", "We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.", "That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.", "I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.", "To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...", "Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?", "To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.", "The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.", "Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.", "Seeing ourselves as others would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.", "Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.", "Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.", "Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.", "I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.", "Deeds, not words shall speak me.", "Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion... or you shall learn nothing.", "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.", "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.", "He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes.\"", "There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.", "If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.", "Feel the fear and do it anyway.", "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.", "Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.", "The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.", "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.", "I can resist anything but temptation.", "The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.", "Silence is more musical than any song.", "Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.", "What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.", "Not going home is already like death.", "Everything you've learned in school as \"obvious\" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.", "In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.", "He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.", "I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.", "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.", "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.", "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.", "I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.", "You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.", "Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months.", "Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.", "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.", "We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty.", "It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.", "Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.", "Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.", "Life is consciousness.", "At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.", "When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.", "The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.", "A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.", "Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.", "Adventure is just bad planning.", "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.", "Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.", "When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.", "Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?", "Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.", "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 greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.", "One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.", "I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.", "Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases.", "Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.", "Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.", "I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.", "The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.", "Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.", "It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.", "We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.", "When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.", "Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.", "How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.", "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.", "We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.", "Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.", "Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.", "I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.", "It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.", "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.", "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.", "Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.", "The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.", "The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.", "Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.", "Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.", "Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.", "Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it.", "In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.", "Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.", "Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.", "Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.", "If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.", "Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.", "To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.", "Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.", "Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.", "It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.", "You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, \"Why not?\"", "Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.", "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.", "I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.", "It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.", "In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.", "Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.", "To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.", "Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.", "We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.", "You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.", "Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.", "Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.", "If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.", "Self-control is not a problem in the future. It's only a problem NOW when the chocolates is next to us.", "If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.", "No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.", "I'm of the mind that even people who have limitations, if they have a curiosity, they will find a way to explore it.", "A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.", "I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.", "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.", "Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.", "The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.", "My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.", "Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.", "Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.", "Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.", "One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.", "When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.", "Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.", "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.", "My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.", "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.", "The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.", "You never find yourself until you face the truth.", "Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.", "To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.", "Great part of being a grownup, you never have to do anything.", "Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.", "It's about what YOU are going to do with the short time you have left on this earth.", "If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?", "Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.", "Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.", "Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.", "It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.", "When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.", "This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.", "There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.", "Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and shortened period of mental assimilation.", "In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.", "Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.", "The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'", "If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.", "Communism is like one big phone company.", "What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.", "It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.", "The only paradise is paradise lost.", "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.", "A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.", "I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.", "Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.", "Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.", "I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.", "Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.", "Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.", "Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.", "No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.", "The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.", "Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.", "But seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.", "A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.", "A person's abilities are tested best when defending rather than attacking.", "I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.", "You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?", "Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that's already broken! You can't get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable!", "Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.", "As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.", "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.", "The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.", "The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...", "They certainly give very strange names to diseases.", "Even God cannot change the past.", "Promote yourself, but do not demote another.", "Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.", "War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.", "The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.", "He who will not economize will have to agonize.", "To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.", "War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.", "Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.", "Truth is what stands the test of experience.", "Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.", "You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.", "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.", "To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.", "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", "When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.", "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.", "In love, one and one are one.", "Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.", "The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.", "Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.", "Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.", "When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.", "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.", "Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.", "Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.", "In the end, everything is a gag.", "I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.", "The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.", "The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...", "Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.", "It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.", "The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.", "The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.", "What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.", "The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold.", "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.", "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.", "Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.", "Running cross country is the closest man will ever get to flying.", "She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.", "Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.", "Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.", "By the work one knows the workmen.", "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.", "We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.", "A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.", "If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.", "I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.", "The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.", "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.", "We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.", "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.", "Truth has beauty, power and necessity.", "It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.", "There is no good lighting that is healthy and for our well being without proper darkness.", "Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.", "You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.", "Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.", "In heaven all the interesting people are missing.", "When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.", "You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair–the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.", "The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.", "Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.", "Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.", "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.", "Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.", "It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.", "A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.", "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.", "If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.", "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.", "There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.", "All things must change to something new, to something strange.", "Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.", "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.", "Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.", "Slap a mask on a drunk and you're going to have trouble. It's like having a live reenactment of anonymous forum comments.", "You have to be careful who you let define your good.", "If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.", "Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.", "We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.", "One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.", "When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.", "Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.", "If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.", "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.", "Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.", "You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.", "No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.", "Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.", "The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.", "My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.", "Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.", "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.", "Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.", "The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.", "So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.", "You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.", "The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.", "I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.", "There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.", "The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.", "Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.", "Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.", "One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it with people we may not like or even know.", "It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.", "Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.", "Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.", "I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.", "The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.", "In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.", "Never eat more than you can lift.", "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.", "Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.", "It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.", "I live in the present due to the constraints of the Space-Time Continuum.", "If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.", "To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.", "Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.", "God help those who do not help themselves.", "Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.", "Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.", "In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.", "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.", "A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.", "Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.", "What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.", "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.", "She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.", "Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out.", "A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.", "A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.", "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.", "If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.", "The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.", "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.", "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.", "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.", "The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.", "The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.", "The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.", "The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.", "Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.", "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.", "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.", "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.", "Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.", "There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.", "The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.", "Nostalgia is a side effect of dying.", "I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.", "Getting caught is the mother of invention.", "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.", "Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.", "Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.", "You don't need to outdo the competition. It's expensive and defensive. Underdo your competition. We need more simplicity and clarity.", "He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.", "Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.", "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'", "Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child.", "Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.", "He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.", "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.", "Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better.", "Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.", "A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.", "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.", "To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship.", "You may delay, but time will not.", "Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.", "One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.", "Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.", "Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.", "Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.", "The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.", "Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.", "The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.", "The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said \"God Bless you\" I said, \"I didn't sneeze\" She looked deep into my eyes and said, \"You will, eventually.\" And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed.", "Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.", "Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'", "Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.", "The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.", "You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.", "Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.", "I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.", "Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.", "Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.", "Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.", "Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.", "There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.", "The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.", "Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.", "A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.", "Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.", "You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.", "We can't expect to solve problems if all we do is tear each other down. You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it.", "Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.", "Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.", "Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.", "You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.", "If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.", "Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.", "This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.", "I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.", "Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.", "If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.", "Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.", "Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.", "Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.", "Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.", "If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.", "Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.", "I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.", "Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings.", "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.", "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.", "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.", "I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.", "I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.", "I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.", "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.", "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.", "Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us? How dare we let it into our decision making; into our livelihoods; into our relationships? It's funny isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up, in costume and celebrate fear.", "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.", "Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.", "Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.", "Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.", "A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.", "Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies.", "Hope is only the love of life.", "Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.", "Use soft words and hard arguments.", "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.", "What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?", "Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.", "Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.", "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.", "From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.", "The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.", "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.", "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.", "The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.", "I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.", "There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.", "Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.", "Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.", "All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.", "Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.", "I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.", "There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.", "Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.", "Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.", "Sometimes the joys of our youth do not translate to joys in adulthood and it’s hard to release them.", "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.", "Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.", "The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.", "Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day.", "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.", "It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.", "If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.", "People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.", "It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.", "To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.", "Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.", "If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.", "I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.", "I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.", "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.", "A life lived in chaos is an impossibility...", "Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.", "The reverse side also has a reverse side.", "When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.", "Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.", "We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.", "The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.", "Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.", "If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.", "My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.", "Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?", "I am interested in the homeless, but they're a symptom. You're treating a symptom and the disease rages on and consumes the human race. I'm talking about an overhaul of the system: putting power in different hands.", "Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.", "I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.", "Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.", "My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?", "In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.", "I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.", "Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.", "Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.", "God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.", "It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.", "Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.", "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.", "Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.", "Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.", "If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.", "The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of 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.", "If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.", "Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.", "We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.", "Actions lie louder than words.", "Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.", "The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.", "Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.", "Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.", "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.", "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.", "Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.", "I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.", "Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.", "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.", "By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.", "When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people.", "We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.", "Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.", "You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.", "Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds.", "The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.", "I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.", "Women should be obscene and not heard.", "There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?", "Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.", "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.", "Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create ripple effects. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity and boost our economy.", "There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.", "Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.", "You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.", "The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.", "Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now!", "Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.", "When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.", "Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.", "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.", "If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.", "Every man is the architect of his own fortune.", "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.", "There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.", "'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.", "Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.", "If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.", "Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.", "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.", "What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?", "Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is.", "If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.", "What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.", "I dream, therefore I become.", "We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.", "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.", "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.", "If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.", "Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.", "The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.", "Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.", "whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present?", "Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.", "The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.", "There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.", "I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.", "Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.", "We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.", "Knowing that there is worse pain doesn't make present pain hurt any less.", "Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.", "If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.", "Discretion is not the better part of biography.", "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.", "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.", "No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.", "It's not having what you want It's wanting what you've got.", "If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.", "Things are only impossible until they're not.", "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.", "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.", "In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.", "Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.", "Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.", "Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.", "The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.", "When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.", "There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.", "Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool. Yet there are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.", "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.", "Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.", "If you don't know what to do, call the media and at least give the appearance of doing something.", "Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.", "They always talk who never think.", "Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple.", "Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.", "Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.", "The only cure for grief is action.", "If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it's passed.", "One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.", "When I see somebody 'suffering for their art', it%uFFFDs usually a case of them not knowing where that red line is, not knowing where the sovereignty lies.", "Worry is a misuse of imagination.", "I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.", "The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.", "God, I don’t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.", "It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.", "Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.", "In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.", "Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.", "Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.", "In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.", "We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.", "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.", "Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.", "The talent should speak for itself.", "To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.", "I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.", "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy", "Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.", "Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.", "A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.", "I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.", "It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.", "Some people make headlines while others make history.", "People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.", "Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.", "It’s really easy to complain. If you’re not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good.", "I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.", "If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.", "There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.", "Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.", "In a mad world only the mad are sane.", "There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.", "You can observe a lot just by watching.", "There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?", "When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.", "He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.", "Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.", "Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.", "Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.", "You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.", "We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.", "A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.", "What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.", "Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.", "We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than vising to the challenges of the age.", "It's better to be a company than to work for a company.", "There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.", "Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.", "Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.", "There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.", "Our creations MUST be shared to be art, and the easiest way to share our art is to sell it.", "Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.", "There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.", "Trust that your child is trying to be the best he can be and that he will do this more readily without your criticism. Know that he usually sees his own faults without you continually pointing them out.", "Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.", "Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.", "Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.", "Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.", "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.", "The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren't even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago. Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off.", "I am no more humble than my talents require.", "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.", "I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.", "It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.", "Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.", "It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.", "A Hospital is no place to be sick.", "There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.", "There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.", "In terms of being late or not starting at all, then it's never too late.", "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.", "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.", "Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.", "It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?", "Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.", "Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.", "The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.", "Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.", "Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24-7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world...", "We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.", "The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.", "When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.", "Everything you do in life, every choice you make, has a consequence. When you do things without thinkin', then you ain't makin' the choice. The choice is makin' you.", "My work is a game, a very serious game.", "Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.", "I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.", "When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.", "Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.", "Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.", "Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.", "Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!", "When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own.", "Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.", "The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.", "Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.", "If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.", "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.", "Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.", "This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.", "Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.", "Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.", "I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.", "To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.", "The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.", "There are worse things than looking stupid. Sleeping through life is one of them.", "It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.", "There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.", "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.", "There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.", "Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.", "I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.", "The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.", "Being manipulative is dishonest and immature. We often end up having to make up more lies to cover for inconsistencies in our original manipulation. In addition, it sets a terrible example for our children. While it may solve your initial problem, the tangled web that grows from such dishonesty is more trouble than it’s worth.", "Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.", "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.", "The road to hell is paved with adverbs.", "When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'", "Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.", "Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.", "The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.", "Your child can’t hurt you if you don’t accept the hurt. Let it go.", "Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.", "I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.", "You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.", "He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.", "Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.", "Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.", "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'.", "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?", "When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.", "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.", "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.", "It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.", "All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.", "A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.", "It doesn't matter if you win or lose in the big, scary jungle of the real world. Winners and losers... Enemies and allies... We don't live in a comic book! This is the real deal.", "I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.", "America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.", "If you believe everything you read, better not read.", "First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.", "The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.", "By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.", "People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.", "If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.", "Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.", "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.", "While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.", "It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.", "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.", "Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.", "A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.", "The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.", "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.", "Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.", "Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.", "We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.", "If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.", "Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.", "Drugs have taught an entire generation of Americans the metric system.", "The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.", "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.", "Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.", "Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.", "Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.", "We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.", "The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.", "Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.", "Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.", "There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.", "Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.", "O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!", "Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.", "It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.", "When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go.", "To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.", "If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.", "You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.", "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.", "Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.", "Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds.", "Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.", "To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.", "Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.", "Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.", "Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.", "Criticism is prejudice made plausible.", "Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.", "Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.", "Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.", "Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.", "If I've learned one thing in the 14 years I've been a full-time cartoonist, it's that you can not let anyone else define your professionalism. It has to be a personal ethos to which you adhere despite third party influence or acceptance. The old measuring sticks for professionalism are going away and now more than ever it's time for independent creatives to set the bar. Set it high.", "Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.", "To play it safe is not to play.", "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.", "Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.", "Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.", "Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.", "Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.", "I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.", "To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.", "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but raptors are pretty dang scary. ", "Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.", "The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.", "Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.", "Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.", "Now is the time for all good men to come to.", "When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.", "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.", "There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.", "It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.", "To be poor and dependent is very nearly an impossibility.", "Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.", "Do not consider painful what is good for you.", "Forgiveness is one of the many horrible side effects of loving someone.", "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.", "Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.", "Too much of a good thing is wonderful.", "D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.", "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!", "Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.", "Every mile is two in winter.", "When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.", "The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.", "Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.", "There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.", "We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.", "Free advice is worth the price.", "Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.", "Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.", "Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.", "Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.", "Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.", "The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.", "Part of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.", "We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.", "If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.", "We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.", "If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.", "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.", "I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.", "It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.", "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.", "Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.", "I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.", "The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you any more. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction.", "Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.", "Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.", "If you cannot convince them, confuse them.", "Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.", "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.", "Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.", "Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.", "We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.", "[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.", "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.", "Though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!", "Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.", "An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.", "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.", "Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.", "We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.", "Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.", "If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.", "I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.", "Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.", "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.", "Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.", "The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.", "War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.", "There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.", "Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.", "At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.", "In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.", "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.", "The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.", "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.", "Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.", "I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.", "Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air.", "When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.", "In a progressive country change is constant; ...change... is inevitable.", "The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.", "Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.", "Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.", "I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what’s right for me except me. I’m not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.", "War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.", "Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.", "Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.", "It is the caring and sharing that count—love is not prevented by the things and the time that you haven’t shared.", "Confusion is always the most honest response.", "Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.", "Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.", "The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.", "I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.", "Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.", "It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.", "Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.", "When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.", "Maybe it's easier to like someone else's life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsiblity to change our lives into lives we might like.", "The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.", "Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.", "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.", "In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.", "Genius is of no country.", "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.", "Wear the old coat and buy the new book.", "Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?", "Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.", "If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.", "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.", "Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.", "The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.", "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.", "In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.", "Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.", "Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.", "No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.", "A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.", "It never hurts to ask. Unless you ask for hurt.", "I am at two with nature.", "You give my regards to St. Peter, or whoever has his job, but in Hell.", "With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?", "The most profound statements are often said in silence.", "Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.", "I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.", "When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.", "If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough. In the meantime, you%uFFFDre better off going out into the big, wide world, having some adventures and refilling your well. Trying to create when you don%uFFFDt feel like it is like making conversation for the sake of making conversation.", "I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.", "There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.", "Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.", "How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.", "The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.", "Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.", "The days of the digital watch are numbered.", "Age is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.", "Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.", "Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.", "Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.", "To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.", "Eighty percent of success is showing up.", "On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.", "When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.", "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.", "You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.", "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.", "An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.", "It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?", "It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.", "The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.", "Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.", "We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.", "To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.", "Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.", "When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, \" When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies.\" But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.", "Television has raised writing to a new low.", " There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.", "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.", "My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.", "Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off.", "If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?", "Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.", "Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.", "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.", "Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.", "Technical term is narcissism. You can't believe everything is your fault unless you also believe you're all powerful.", "Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.", "Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.", "Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.", "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.", "Anything too stupid to be said is sung.", "A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.", "Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.", "You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.", "A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.", "Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.", "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.", "Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.", "So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.", "You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.", "I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.", "The future will erase everything—there’s no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.", "Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.", "You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.", "A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.", "Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.", "When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.", "When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.", "People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.", "Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.", "He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.", "The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.", "When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.", "It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.", "That's just the way things go. We meet people, get to know them and then they get up and leave us behind.", "Make your life a mission - not an intermission.", "A friend is a second self.", "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.", "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.", "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.", "I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.", "Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.", "We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.", "Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.", "The saying \"Getting there is half the fun\" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.", "One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.", "For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.", "Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.", "If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.", "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.", "The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.", "You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.", "The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.", "If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.", "There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.", "When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!", "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.", "The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.", "Breaking up isn’t something that gets done to you; it’s something that happens with you.", "And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.", "My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.", "The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself. As long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience.", "Facts are the enemy of truth.", "I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.", "I've accepted that I'm not going to die of natural causes, [but] getting killed 'cuz you're naturally a dick seems like natural causes to me.", "Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.", "Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.", "The beginning is always today.", "When you get right down to it, what we all need is a place to go... A place where we can escape the noise of our lives and just relax.", "Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.", "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.", "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.", "One's life is not as fixed as one believes. Surprises may lie in store for you, the unexpected often tends to happen, sometimes bringing in its train the most delightful change in one's life or circumstances.", "There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.", "Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.", "The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.", "Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most.", "Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.", "I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.", "Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.", "Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.", "The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives.", "We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight.", "Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.", "Why do we have to wait for special moments to say nice things or tell people we care about them?", "Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.", "To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.", "The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.", "I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.", "Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.", "But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.", "One can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.", "If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.", "Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.", "A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.", "I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.", "We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.", "Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.", "I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.", "Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.", "It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.", "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. ", "The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.", "Live always in the best company when you read.", "Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.", "We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.", "How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.", "Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.", "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.", "Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.", "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.", "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.", "Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.", "No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.", "Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.", "Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, \"Where have I gone wrong?\" Then a voice says to me, \"This is going to take more than one night.\"", "Live well. It is the greatest revenge.", "When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.", "Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.", "In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.", "Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.", "What happens when the future has come and gone?", "Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.", "Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth.", "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.", "Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.", "You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.", "In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.", "The middle of the road is where the white line is-and that's the worst place to drive.", "The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.", "Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.", "A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.", "We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God’s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.", "The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.", "Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.", "By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.", "The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.", "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.", "Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?", "Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.", "If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.", "He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.", "Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.", "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.", "Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.", "Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.", "Remove every barrier you can to fandom. A fan will be an evangelist for your work.", "In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.", "Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand", "Everyone has his burden; what counts is how you carry it.", "Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you.", "Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.", "One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.", "The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.", "There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.", "An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.", "An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.", "I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.", "A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.", "The shortest route to getting things done is just do it.", "Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.", "To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.", "To try to be better is to be better.", "At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.", "Part of understanding the creative urge is understanding that it's primal. Wanting to change the world is not a noble calling, it's a primal calling.", "The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.", "It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.", "There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.", "Art is science made clear.", "Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.", "Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.", "It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.", "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.", "We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.", "Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.", "After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar.", "None are so busy as the fool and knave.", "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.", "It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.", "Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.", "Treasure the love you have received above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.", "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.", "The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.", "It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.", "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.", "Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.", "When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.", "Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.", "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.", "There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.", "The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.", "Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.", "Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.", "Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.", "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.", "We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.", "The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.", "As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.", "Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.", "It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.", "When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.", "If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.", "[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.", "We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.", "Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.", "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.", "Walking is also an ambulation of mind.", "It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.", "You don’t have to live your life so that your life is suitable for small talk. Life can be lived in ways that circumnavigate a myriad of colors and landscapes.", "Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.", "Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.", "We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.", "Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.", "If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.", "He talked with more claret than clarity.", "If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.", "Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.", "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.", "My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.", "On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero.", "He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.", "Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.", "It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.", "So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.", "A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.", "Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.", "Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.", "It's not the will to win that matters...everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.", "No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.", "Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.", "Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.", "I'm a fan of laundry: the smell of fabric softener, the warm clothes in your hands. It's so good.", "We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.", "My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.", "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.", "The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.", "Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.", "Of those who say nothing, few are silent.", "All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.", "Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.", "The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying \"Yes.\" No. Focusing is about saying \"No.\" And when you say \"No,\" you piss off people.", "Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.", "For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.", "Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.", "By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.", "Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.", "A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing... It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.", "Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.", "The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.", "The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.", "Humankind cannot stand very much reality.", "I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.", "You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.", "Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.", "The point is that no matter what your feelings are, your children will be better off if you make them your central focus and work diligently at keeping the parenting relationship civil and cooperative.", "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.", "We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.", "He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.", "To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.", "Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.", "Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.", "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.", "You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.", "A man can do all things if he but wills them.", "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.", "I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring.", "Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.", "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.", "Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.", "We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.", "I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.", "I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.", "I really feel as if the things we create together are not things we devised, but things we discovered, as if, in some sense, they were always there in us, waiting to be revealed, like the figure of Mercury waiting in a rough lump of marble.", "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.", "Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.", "After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.", "A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be.", "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.", "My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.", "Complain to one who can help you.", "Cocooned inside our private dramas we often don’t realize life is rolling by us like it should.", "A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.", "It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.", "People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.", "Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.", "A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.", "A cult is a religion with no political power.", "Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.", "There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.", "To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.", "I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.", "Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.", "But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.", "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.", "Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.", "Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.", "America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.", "The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.", "You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.", "I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.", "Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.", "There is no remedy for love but to love more.", "A hug is a wonderful thing. It makes you feel wanted, needed, and loved all at the same time.", "There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.", "There it was, hidden in alphabetical order.", "I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.", "The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.", "It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.", "If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.", "A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.", "Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.", "One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.", "Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.", "You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.", "Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.", "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.", "The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.", "When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.", "Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.", "Even the best of friends need time apart.", "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.", "Permanent weight loss doesn’t come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body.", "The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.", "This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.", "College isn't the place to go for ideas.", "Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.", "Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.", "It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.", "You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.", "A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.", "Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.", "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.", "Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.", "Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.", "The world is my lobster.", "A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.", "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.", "A way to a man's heart is through his stomach, that shit true as gold. You put some love in your food and a fool can taste it.", "A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.", "Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.", "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.", "Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.", "All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!", "The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.", "The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.", "The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.", "The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.", "Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.", "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.", "Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.", "Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.", "The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.", "The only gift is a portion of thyself.", "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.", "Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth our powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.", "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.", "McCabe's Law: Nobody _has_ to do _anything_.", "I learned early that sometimes you have to dig through garbage to get anywhere.", "The fact is, sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun.", "Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.", "When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.", "When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.", "Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.", "O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.", "Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.", "The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.", "It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.", "I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.", "Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.", "Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.", "I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.", "Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.", "The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.", "Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.", "I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.", "Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.", "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.", "Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.", "Dreams alone aren't enough to make your belly full.", "Live forever or die in the attempt.", "I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.", "To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.", "My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.", "Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.", "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.", "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.", "I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.", "It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.", "Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.", "It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.", "A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.", "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.", "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", "You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.", "Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.", "Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.", "I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.", "Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstriped suit.", "There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.", "Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.", "There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.", "If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.", "He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.", "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.", "There is no joy in a life that is all information. There is no 'juice' to that kind of life. No sweetness, no color. Like trading a beautiful golden-ripe orange for a stalk of whithered broccoli.", "Part of being a Master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.", "I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, \"I wanna grow up and be a critic.\"", "Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.", "Where facts are few, experts are many.", "Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.", "You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.", "No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.", "I’m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.", "It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.", "It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.", "When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.", "If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.", "Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.", "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.", "To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.", "Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.", "I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.", "I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.", "We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!", "The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful", "A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.", "Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.", "Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.", "You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you.", "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.", "It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.", "Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.", "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.", "Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.", "Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.", "The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.", "Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.", "You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.", "Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.", "Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.", "A smile is the shortest distance between two people.", "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.", "There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.", "Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.", "I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.", "I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.", "Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.", "He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.", "My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.", "My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.", "God creates men, but they choose each other.", "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.", "I once read cooking is something you do for your family. But when you’re alone you sometimes have to treat yourself like family. And now that my apartment’s redolent with the smell of food it feels more like a home than a box where I hang my hat.", "Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.", "I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, \"I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.\"", "To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?", "The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.", "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.", "If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.", "To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.", "We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.", "I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.", "I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.", "I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.", "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.", "The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.", "It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.", "Somebody once said that beauty is the passport to success, but it's not a passport. It's a visa and it expires.", "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.", "Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.", "Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.", "Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.", "Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.", "Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.", "Life is too complicated not to be orderly.", "We always felt as if every show was the most important thing in the world, but knew if we bombed, we'd live.", "It had only been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly... 'I trust you; do what you must,' life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.", "Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.", "The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.", "In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.", "Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.", "I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.", "If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.", "Happiness depends upon ourselves.", "You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last.", "Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.", "It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.", "To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.", "A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.", "Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.", "Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.", "I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.", "Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.", "You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.", "You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.", "The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.", "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.", "One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.", "Just because it's only 'stuff' doesn't mean I can't appreciate it while I have it.", "The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. ", "The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.", "You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.", "Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.", "It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.", "Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.", "The things you own end up owning you.", "My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.", "Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.", "Love is the reason for it all.", "A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.", "Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.", "What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?", "I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.", "One can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?", "The average person thinks he isn't.", "Revolution is not a onetime event.", "If you’re not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world won’t combat the caloric intake.", "They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.", "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.", "You learn a lot about people when you play games with them.", "I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.", "[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.", "There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.", "Nothing is easy to the unwilling.", "Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.", "Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.", "Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'", "She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.", "Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.", "The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.", "Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.", "It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.", "Anything you fully do is an alone journey.", "Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.", "It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.", "Children will adapt to nearly any rule or routine as long as it is consistently enforced within that particular household.", "Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.", "The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.", "Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.'", "Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.", "First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.", "A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.", "You never can see into someone else's marriage.", "You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.", "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.", "The secret to success in life is known only to those who have not succeeded.", "You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.", "There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses.", "Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw.", "The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.", "When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you.", "I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.", "Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.", "Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.", "Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.", "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.", "One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.", "What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.", "Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.", "She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.", "If at first you don't succeed try, try again. If you fail even after these attempts, perhaps your just stupid.", "If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.", "It's a dangerous business going out your front door.", "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.", "People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.", "What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.", "Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.", "This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.", "Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.", "A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.", "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.", "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.", "If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.", "I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.", "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.", "Computer dating is fine, if you’re a computer.", "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.", "I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.", "People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.", "Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.", "A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.", "I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.", "A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.", "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.", "When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.", "Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family.", "We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.", "If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed.", "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", "You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.", "The greater man the greater courtesy.", "Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.", "It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.", "Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.", "In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.", "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.", "Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.", "I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.", "What may be done at any time will be done at no time.", "The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.", "There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.", "Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.", "We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.", "Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.", "The computing field is always in need of new cliches.", "It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.", "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.", "I cannot live without books.", "We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.", "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.", "Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason.", "Never give a child a sword.", "Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.", "What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.", "When people think the world of you, be careful with them.", "Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.", "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.", "Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.", "And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle.", "A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.", "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.", "Our patience will achieve more than our force.", "I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.", "Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.", "Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.", "In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.", "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.", "So little time and so little to do.", "I didn't really say everything I said.", "I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.", "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 just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.", "TV is chewing gum for the eyes.", "I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.", "We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.", "The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.", "Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'", "Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.", "You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.", "Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.", "Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250", "Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.", "Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.", "Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.", "Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.", "Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.", "There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.", "It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.", "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.", "There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.", "It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.", "If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.", "Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.", "Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.", "It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.", "Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.", "And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.", "Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.", "Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.", "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.", "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.", "You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.", "The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.", "Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.", "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.", "Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.", "I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.", "Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.", "The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.", "A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.", "Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.", "Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.", "Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.", "There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.", "He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.", "Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.", "I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.", "Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.", "The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.", "There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.", "If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.", "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.", "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.", "Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.", "We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.", "A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.", "Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.", "I have gotten a lot more attention than...other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And this has happened to me ever since I was a girl, when I was flat, had no teeth, was skinny and small as I could be. I always got more attention than anyone else. If I hadn't, I would have made sure I did.", "Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.", "For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.", "Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.", "Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.", "That's the thing about needs. Sometimes, when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.", "There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.", "Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'", "Nihilism is best done by professionals.", "I'm as pure as the driven slush.", "Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.", "The future will be better tomorrow.", "The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.", "The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.", "Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'", "Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.", "When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.", "Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.", "Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.", "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.", "If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.", "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.", "Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.", "Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.", "Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.", "I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.", "Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.", "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.", "Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.", "Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.", "Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.", "Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.", "The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.", "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.", "Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.", "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.", "Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.", "What you cannot enforce, do not command.", "But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.", "Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.", "The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.", "Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.", "Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.", "The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.", "Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.", "War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.", "To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.", "Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.", "You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby.", "We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.", "Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.", "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.", "Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.", "Painting in watercolor is like walking a tight-rope; one must achieve a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the artist wants to do, or all is lost.", "It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.", "Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.", "Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.", "No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.", "I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.", "Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.", "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.", "Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?", "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.", "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.", "I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called \"scientific\" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.", "It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'", "I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.", "No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.", "My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'", "Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.", "Maybe it's what's inside that counts, but being told you look good feels good!", "Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable.", "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.", "I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.", "It is hard work, but there is happiness in it.", "I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.", "Work is the curse of the drinking classes.", "Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.", "Stamina is utterly important. And stamina is only possible if it's managed well. People think all they need to do is endure one crazy, intense, job-free creative burst and their dreams will come true. They are wrong, they are stupidly wrong.", "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.", "I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.", "We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.", "Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.", "If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.", "There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.", "I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in which you live... More I cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile.", "Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.", "If you are capable people are happy to play with you.", "As I was walking up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd stay away.", "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.", "Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.", "One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.", "We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.", "Language is the source of misunderstandings.", "I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.", "Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.", "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.", "I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.", "The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.", "Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.", "Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.", "It was reassuring to know exactly where one stood. That one stood at the end of the line was not pertinent. At least there was a line in which to subsist.", "You have to want weight-loss success so badly that no mountain, river, or ocean could keep you from reaching your goals. If you have that drive, passion, and commitment, there is no way you won’t get there.", "I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.", "Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.", "Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.", "So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.", "Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.", "Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.", "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.", "Health food makes me sick.", "Oregano is the spice of life.", "What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.", "I deal with stress in two ways because there are two kinds of stress. There's stress that you can take care of and there's stress that you can't. The first one, I take care of it as fast as possible, because putting it off always makes it worse. Things that I can't fix? I think about the fact that I can't fix them. I think about why I can't fix them and I come to terms with the fact that this is a problem that I'm not going to overcome and that the world is not a wish granting factory.", "The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.", "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.", "Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.", "They say you just stand over there, he'll say thank you and you walk back off and that's what I thought was gonna happen, but in my head, I had for five or six years known that he was gonna call me over.", "Boxing is just show business with blood.", "I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.", "We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.", "The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.", "Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.", "Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.", "It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.", "Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.", "Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.", "Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.", "Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.", "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.", "Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.", "Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.", "In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. ", "The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.", "The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.", "When you come to a fork in the road, take it.", "I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.", "When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.", "Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.", "Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.", "The wages of sin are unreported.", "A poem is no place for an idea.", "We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.", "Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.", "People are always trying to [mess] up other people's live's by telling lies about 'em. You wanna really [mess] somebody's life up? Tell the truth about 'em. They ain't never gonna be the same.", "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.", "If you can’t take responsibility for your own well-being, you will never take control over it.", "We think in generalities, but we live in detail.", "Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.", "Sometimes the clearest mirrors come from those who are outside looking in.", "When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.", "Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.", "Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.", "The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.", "Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.", "If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.", "Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.", "Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.", "Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.", "You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts. You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that’s all.", "A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.", "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.", "It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.", "The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.", "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.", "Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.", "The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.", "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.", "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.", "Any time and energy you spend hating and being angry at your ex will ultimately take a toll on you without effecting any positive changes in your ex or your relationship.", "Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.", "I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?", "There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.", "We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.", "Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.", "Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.", "Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.", "I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.", "Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.", "Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.", "I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.", "The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.", "Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.", "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.", "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.", "The multitude of books is making us ignorant.", "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.", "People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.", "The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary.", "A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.", "The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.", "To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.", "This is like deja vu all over again.", "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.", "Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.", "Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.", "Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.", "I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.", "If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?", "Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.", "Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.", "For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.", "The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.", "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.", "Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.", "The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.", "...myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.", "As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.", "Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.", "Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that make it.", "The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.", "Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.", "Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.", "I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn't interest me.", "It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.", "We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.", "Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.", "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.", "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.", "He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.", "Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.", "Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.", "Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.", "The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.", "When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.", "Maybe I want strangers to think I’m cool since people who actually know me don’t.", "The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty-five years ago. The second best time is today.", "Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.", "You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.", "In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.", "If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do.", "That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....", "Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.", "To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.", "Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.", "If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.", "It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.", "We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?", "In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.", "Life isn't long enough for love and art.", "The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.", "Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.", "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.", "Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.", "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.", "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.", "It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.", "The best armor is to keep out of range.", "At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.", "In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.", "I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.", "If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?", "Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.", "Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.", "If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.", "Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.", "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.", "If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.", "We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.", "Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.", "I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours.", "If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.", "Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.", "When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.", "Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.", "Good men must be affectionate men.", "Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.", "The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.", "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.", "If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.", "Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.", "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.", "I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.", "Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.", "If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don't like you.", "It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.", "I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.", "The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.", "I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.", "Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.", "Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!", "Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.", "When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it.", "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.", "Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms... This is a process that requires trust and builds trust.", "Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.", "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.", "It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.", "We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.", "Love has no place in a lawyer's office.", "The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.", "Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?", "Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose.", "One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.", "What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!", "We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.", "If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.", "The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.", "Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.", "I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.", "Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.", "If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.", "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.", "Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.", "To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.", "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.", "Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.", "Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.", "You know, I think that if parents would spend less time worrying about what their kids watch on TV and more time worrying about what's going on in their kids' lives, this world would be a much better place.", "One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.", "Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.", "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.", "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.", "Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.", "I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.", "Maybe this world is another planet's hell.", "She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. ", "Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.", "America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.", "One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.", "Food is the most primitive form of comfort.", "He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.", "You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.", "My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.", "Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.", "To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.", "If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.", "Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.", "Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.", "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.", "Every time we say, \"Let there be!\" in any form, something happens.", "It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.", "If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.", "I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.", "I celebrate myself, and sing myself.", "Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.", "Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.", "For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.", "Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.", "The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.", "On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.", "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.", "I grow more intense as I age.", "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.", "Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.", "I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.", "The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.", "Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.", "There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.", "Just because this isn't in your life plan doesn't mean this isn't exactly where you're supposed to be.", "When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.", "First things first, but not necessarily in that order.", "In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.", "If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.", "Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.", "Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.", "A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.", "The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.", "Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.", "If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.", "One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.", "I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.", "If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.", "I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.", "The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.", "Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.", "The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.", "Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.", "The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.", "He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.", "We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.", "Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.", "Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.", "I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.", "What if this weren't a hypothetical question?", "If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.", "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.", "My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.", "There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.", "The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.", "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.", "One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.", "Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.", "All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.", "I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.", "Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.", "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.", "The best way to get approval is not to need it.", "Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.", "Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.", "Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.", "We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.", "We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.", "Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.", "Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.", "Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?", "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.", "Life is a long lesson in humility.", "The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.", "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.", "Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office.", "I dote on his very absence.", "I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.", "I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.", "Life ain't like books. Books got somebody writin' 'em and tryin' to entertain ya. Life is more like a set of Legos. Unless you take care of 'em, you lose a few pieces and you end up steppin' on 'em with bare feet. You gotta take care of your life.", "Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.", "An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.", "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.", "At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.", "Guilt is a rope that wears thin.", "For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.", "I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.", "Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.", "When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.", "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.", "There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.", "Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.", "We al have family disfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.", "Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.", "Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.", "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.", "Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.", "An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.", "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.", "The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.", "Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.", "If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em.", "The big thieves hang the little ones.", "This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.", "Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.", "Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.", "Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.", "When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.", "I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.", "It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.", "There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.", "I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family.", "Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.", "What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.", "Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.", "Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.", "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.", "Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.", "Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.", "I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't.", "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.", "There are too many people, and too few human beings.", "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.", "If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.", "No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don’t work out.", "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.", "In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.", "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.", "Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.", "No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.", "I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.", "Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.", "That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.", "Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.", "I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.", "Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us - Life is the test of us!", "I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.", "Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.", "I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.", "When we make assumptions, we contribute to the complexity rather than the simplicity of a problem, making it more difficult to solve.", "An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.", "You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.", "I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something.", "A problem is a chance for you to do your best.", "They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.", "Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.", "Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.", "I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.", "Your mailbox is your window to your heart! Make sure you leave that window open!", "The shortest distance between two points is under construction.", "Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.", "The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.", "Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.", "Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.", "Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.", "Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.", "Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.", "The meek shall inherit the earth? Well... I don't think so. If by meek you mean friendly and introverted, okay maybe, but if by meek you mean unwilling to take a chance, then never. If I was a betting man and I had to wager on who I thought would inherit the earth, my money would be on the curious.", "We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.", "If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.", "Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.", "In summer, the song sings itself.", "What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.", "A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.", "The first rule of business, is never sell something you love. Otherwise, you may as well be selling your children.", "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.", "You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.", "If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite.", "And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.", "The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.", "I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.", "Virtue is its own punishment.", "Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.", "When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.", "I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull.", "When you get angry at your ex, only about 10 percent of your anger can be attributed to the current situation. The other 90 percent comes from your past experiences with your ex, as well as those with your parents, caregivers, and other significant people in your past. The current situation has simply triggered your past anger and allowed it to resurface. It’s been said that if you’re hysterical, the cause is probably historical.", "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.", "The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.", "No.", "Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.", "Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.", "Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.", "A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.", "Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.", "If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.", "We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.", "You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.", "There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.", "'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.", "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.", "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.", "Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?", "I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.", "Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.", "True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.", "There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.", "A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.", "Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love.", "You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.", "One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.", "[Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges.", "There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.", "We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.", "All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.", "They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.", "The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.", "Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.", "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.", "In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.", "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.", "We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.", "Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.", "The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.", "Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.", "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.", "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.", "Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?", "The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.", "Fish and visitors smell in three days.", "The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.", "Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.", "Feelings are like toes! They have to breathe free or they'll stink to high heaven!", "I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise.", "Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.", "Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.", "External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or even incompetence.", "I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.", "I row after health like a waterman...", "Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.", "Everyone's a hero in their own way, in their own not that heroic way.", "Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.", "I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.", "The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.", "What I dream of is an art of balance.", "I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.", "After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted.", "Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.", "All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.", "Be neither too remote nor too familiar.", "I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.", "You live and learn. At any rate, you live.", "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.'", "Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.", "Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.", "Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.", "Our great weariness comes from work not done.", "There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.", "Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.", "I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.", "If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you now more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case.", "If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.", "I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.", "Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.", "Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.", "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.", "The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.", "I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.", "It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.", "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.", "Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?", "Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.", "Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.", "If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.", "The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.", "Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.", "If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.", "The crowd gives the leader new strength.", "To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.", "The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.", "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.", "Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.", "He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.", "Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.", "A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.", "The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.", "Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.", "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.", "How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!", "Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.", "It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.", "I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.", "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.", "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.", "Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.", "So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.", "If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.", "I don't really trust a sane person.", "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.", "Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.", "Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.", "I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'", "One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.", "You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.", "I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself.", "The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.", "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.", "Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.", "We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.", "Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.", "Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.", "The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that.", "We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.", "Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.", "I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.", "Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.", "A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.", "No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.", "Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.", "I felt like poisoning a monk.", "The palest ink is better than the best memory.", "The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.", "You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.", "Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.", "I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.", "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.", "It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.", "Life is something that everyone should try at least once.", "Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.", "Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.", "The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.", "The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.", "It has all been very interesting.", "That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.", "Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.", "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.", "The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.", "For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.", "I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.", "It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.", "You can call it the 'Perfect Moment' when the universe aligns and the music in your head actually matches the music outside and all is well.", "Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.", "It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.", "We don't always get to choose what we love.", "Trade your secrets and become who you are.", "Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.", "Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always watched them as long as she could, delighted to fancy she understood what they might be talking of, as they walked along in happy independence, or equally delighted to see the Admiral's hearty shake of the hand when he encountered an old friend, and observe their eagerness of conversation when occasionally forming into a little knot of the navy, Mrs Croft looking as intelligent and keen as any of the officers around her.", "It's a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, but few are chosen.", "[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.", "Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.", "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.", "Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.", "Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.", "I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations.", "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.", "Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.", "Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.", "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.", "People get comfortable with the way you are—they have formed their opinion of you based on everything they see and know about you as a person. When you change that up by losing weight, they no longer understand you.", "Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.", "Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.", "Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.", "The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.", "There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.", "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.", "The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.", "Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.", "I know a lot about cars. I can look at a car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.", "Drive thy business or it will drive thee.", "Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!", "Life is a zoo in a jungle.", "Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.", "The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.", "Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.", "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.", "For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.", "The best things carried to excess are wrong.", "Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.", "Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!", "I have found that everything wants to kill you. For some things, like fast food, or riding a bike, it just takes longer.", "A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.", "Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.", "You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.", "A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.", "I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.", "Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.", "Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.", "The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.", "Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.", "We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.", "An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.", "There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.", "Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.", "Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.", "It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.", "We are who people think we are.", "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.", "The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.", "The only joy in the world is to begin.", "My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.", "I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.", "Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.", "Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living.", "People are fond of spouting out the old clich%uFFFD about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is somehow merit in utter failure. Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide.", "Literature is news that stays news.", "There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.", "If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.", "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.", "This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.", "The least of learning is done in the classrooms.", "It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.", "The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.", "Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.", "The phrase \"action speaks louder than words,\" is most easily proven by a swift kick to the genitals.", "The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.", "Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.", "Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.", "I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.", "I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.", "Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.", "Nothing endures but personal qualities.", "I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.", "You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.", "Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.", "A short saying oft contains much wisdom.", "The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.", "Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.", "A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.", "I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.", "By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.", "Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.", "Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.", "The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when the nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.", "The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.", "Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.", "I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.", "The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.", "I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.", "Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.", "Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.", "Assumptions are the termites of relationships.", "When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.", "If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.", "Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.", "It is not enough to aim; you must hit.", "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.", "Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.", "Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.", "When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.", "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.", "[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.", "Above all things, reverence yourself.", "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.", "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.", "Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.", "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.", "Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.", "Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.", "A motion to adjourn is always in order.", "Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.", "Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.", "But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.", "People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.", "Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.", "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.", "Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.", "There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.", "We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.", "You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.", "One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.", "Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.", "Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.", "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.", "We did not start as friends, but as people who respected and admired each other. Crucial, absolutely crucial for a partnership. As soon as we could afford it, we ceased sharing lodgings. Equally crucial.", "Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.", "Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.", "Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.", "Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.", "I have seen the future and it doesn't work.", "In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try.", "There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?", "If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.", "Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.", "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.", "My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.", "There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.", "Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.", "Success only hurts the first time.", "[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.", "I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.", "To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!", "I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.", "Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.", "You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.", "'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.", "Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.", "Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human.", "Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.", "America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is moral, not material. we have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.", "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.", "Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.", "Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope.", "All people want is someone to listen.", "The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.", "Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.", "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.", "I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.", "Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.", "Honor does not have to be defended.", "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.", "Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.", "We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.", "Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.", "Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.", "Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.", "Our envy of others devours us most of all.", "Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.", "Without discipline, there's no life at all.", "If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.", "It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.", "Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.", "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.", "There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?", "I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.", "Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.", "There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.", "I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.", "You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.", "Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.", "So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.", "Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.", "Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.", "You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.", "Silence is a text easy to misread.", "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.", "A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.", "Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.", "For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.", "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.", "The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.", "To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.", "Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.", "What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.", "It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.", "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.", "Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.", "With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.", "I hate music, especially when it's played.", "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.", "It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.", "Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.", "Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.", "Dance like it hurts, Love like you need money, Work when people are watching.", "Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.", "There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!", "Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are.", "Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.", "Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness.", "Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.", "Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kind to people. 3.Don't get too excited when you read the Fountainhead 4.In times of recession, it is time for invention. 5.Things can kill you, so keep that in mind, you fearless know it alls.", "Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.", "Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.", "The highest result of education is tolerance.", "I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!", "If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.", "If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.", "There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.", "Medication isn’t the only way to correct brain abnormalities in depression. Physical exercise also brings about profound changes in the brain—changes that rival those seen with the most potent antidepressant medications.", "Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.", "Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.", "It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.", "ALL things great are wound up with all things little.", "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.", "And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.", "People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.", "The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.", "Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.", "Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.", "The easiest thing in the world to be is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.", "There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.", "If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.", "We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.", "One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.", "Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.", "Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.", "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.", "Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.", "The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.", "Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.", "Good order is the foundation of all things.", "I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.", "The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.", "Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.", "The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.", "The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.", "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.", "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.", "The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.", "How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.", "One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.", "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.", "Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.", "Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.", "I think about how there are certain people who come into your life and leave a mark. The ones who are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid.", "The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.", "Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.", "What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?", "You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.", "We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.", "The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.", "The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.", "Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.", "Who begins too much accomplishes little.", "Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.", "My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.", "In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.", "Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.", "I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.", "Get on stage. A lot. Try stuff. Make your best stab and keep stabbing. If it's there in your heart, it will eventually find its way out. Or you will give up and have a prudent, contented life doing something else.", "Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when the big challenges come, we’re ready.", "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.", "A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.", "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.", "God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.", "Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets.", "Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.", "The grass is always greener once you don't have to mow a lawn anymore.", "Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.", "You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience", "The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.", "Woe be to him that reads but one book.", "When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.", "Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.", "Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.", "People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?", "A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.", "Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: \"return to sender, addressee unknown.\" That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view.", "Like I always say, there's no 'I' in \"team\". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up.", "Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.", "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.", "Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.", "If you enjoyed making a thing, and you’re proud of the thing you made, that’s enough. Not everyone is going to like it, and that’s okay.", "Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.", "Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.", "A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.", "The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.", "I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.", "Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.", "I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.", "One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others.", "In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.", "Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.", "When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.", "A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.", "Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.", "You always second guess yourself. Just think of all the time you'd save if you just trusted yourself.", "There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.", "The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.", "Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.", "Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.", "Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.", "When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.", "Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.", "An optimist is the human personification of spring.", "Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.", "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.", "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.", "The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.", "Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.", "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.", "He who would leap high must take a long run.", "An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.", "That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.", "Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house.", "If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.", "When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.", "I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's moments like these that force us to try harder, dig deeper and to discover gifts we never knew we had. To find the greatness that lies within each of us. So don't ever shy away from that endeavor. Don't stop adding to your body of work. I can promise that you will be the better for that continued effort as will be this nation that we all love.", "We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.", "The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.", "Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.", "Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.", "I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.", "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.", "We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.", "Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.", "A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.", "The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.", "Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.", "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.", "Nothing ever goes away.", "First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.", "Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.", "My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money.", "Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.", "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.", "It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.", "But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?", "Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.", "A full cup must be carried steadily.", "I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.", "One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.", "Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.", "Hello seeker! Now don't feel alone here in the New Age, because there's a seeker born every minute.", "I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.", "Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.", "In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.", "A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.", "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.", "Appearance can always be changed, but the talent stays the same.", "Now I understand what exhaustion is. It’s not just a code word for heroin addiction. People don’t teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it’s something I’d never had to handle, because I’d been rejected for so long.", "The wisest mind has something yet to learn.", "Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.", "That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.", "If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.", "Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.", "While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.", "Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.", "I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.", "I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.", "The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.", "The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.", "When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.", "Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.", "Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.", "In the fight between you and the world, back the world.", "As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.", "Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.", "The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.", "Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.", "When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway.", "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.", "Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.", "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.", "The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.", "A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.", "When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here. It's a wonderful life and I love it.", "Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'", "What's done cannot be undone.", "It is the letter not sent that is often the most valuable.", "He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea.", "You have to find a way of working that makes it dead easy to take full advantage of your inspired moments. They never hit at a convenient time, nor do they last long.", "Deal with the consequences of your actions, 'cause life ain't no video game.", "Reality continues to ruin my life.", "How soon was it that the dead are brought to deity in the eyes of those who in life found them little regard.", "Grasp the subject, the words will follow.", "All that counts in life is intention.", "I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.", "A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.", "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.", "Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.", "It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.", "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.", "Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.", "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.", "The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.", "If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.", "The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.", "Can I ever know you Or you know me?", "You always pass failure on the way to success.", "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.", "An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.", "The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.", "I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.", "I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.", "Some things have to be believed to be seen.", "Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.", "Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.", "Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.", "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.", "And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.", "The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.", "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.", "Mighty hard to tell the people you love you're a failure.", "I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.", "When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.", "I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.", "The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.", "There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.", "I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.", "Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and relevetory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.", "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.", "No man is an Island, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine...", "Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.", "Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.", "Life itself is a quotation.", "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.", "Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.", "Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.", "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.", "Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.", "The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.", "We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.", "Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.", "Management is nothing more than motivating other people.", "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.", "If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough", "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.", "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.", "The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.", "It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.", "Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.", "What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.", "Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.", "Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.", "Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.", "If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.", "The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.", "One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.", "The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.", "I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.", "It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.", "A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.", "Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.", "Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.", "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.", "The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.", "Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.", "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.", "After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say \"I want to see the manager.\"", "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.", "Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.", "Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.", "Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.", "We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.", "Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.", "The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.", "Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.", "It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.", "What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.", "The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.", "If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet.", "The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.", "Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.", "It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.", "I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?", "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.", "Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.", "We are most alive when we're in love.", "'If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.", "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.", "First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.", "If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.", "An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.", "We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.", "I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.", "We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.", "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.", "So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.", "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.", "I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.", "My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.", "Never confuse movement with action.", "'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.'", "Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.", "Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.", "The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.", "The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.", "I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother.", "Instant gratification takes too long.", "Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.", "You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.", "We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.", "Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.", "Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.", "It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.", "Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out.", "One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.", "Dare to be yourself.", "You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.", "History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.", "Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.", "That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.", "It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.", "Think of life as a giant, fat cat you're in charge of. Sometimes you can control it, but other times, it's going to do what it wants and you have to roll with it. And sometimes you can do everything - everything you're s'posed to do- and it'll still shred all the things you hold dear... The only thing you can really do with life is rub its belly and prepare for the worst.", "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.", "Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.", "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.", "It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.", "The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.", "He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.", "You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.", "Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.", "The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7\", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.", "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.", "Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.", "If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is \"thank you,\" that would suffice.", "Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.", "Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.", "Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.", "When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.", "Don't waste too much time trying' to be a better man, ' cause you ain't never gonna be one without a good woman.", "The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.", "Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.", "I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'", "Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.", "Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.", "I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.", "By the time we've made it, we've had it.", "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.", "Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.", "The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy.", "Trust one who has gone through it.", "Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.", "One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.", "Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.", "Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.", "Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human.", "I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.", "It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights. Yes we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes we can.", "May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.", "When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.", "Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.", "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.", "No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.", "We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.", "Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.", "Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.", "Wagner's music is better than it sounds.", "We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.", "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.", "If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.", "The sweet and the sour: this is what makes great art.", "Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.", "If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.", "We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.", "Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.", "Who knew that dog saliva can mend a broken heart?", "Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.", "I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.", "Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.", "People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.", "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.", "He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.", "A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.", "The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.", "Don’t let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.", "There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.", "Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.", "Simplicity is the peak of civilization.", "I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.", "We need men who can dream of things that never were.", "Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.", "A little drama wins more friends than boring.", "Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.", "First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.", "Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.", "Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?", "Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.", "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.", "The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.", "Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.", "One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.", "Ninety percent of everything is crap.", "An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.", "Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.", "It's noble to want to confess, but if the results are just damage and pain, that's not noble. It's selfish.", "I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.", "I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.", "Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.", "Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different.", "Mustard's no good without roast beef.", "It may make your blood boil and your mind may not be changed, but the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship. It is essential for our democracy.", "A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?", "Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.", "Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.", "A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.", "Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.", "Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.", "Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.", "We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.", "True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.", "Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.", "The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.", "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.", "One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.", "We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.", "The only thing I like about rich people is their money.", "I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.", "Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.", "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.", "Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.", "The best of us must sometimes eat our words.", "USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.", "Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.", "Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.", "I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.", "Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.", "Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.", "Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.", "I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.", "Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.", "He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.", "Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.", "All the world's a cage.", "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.", "What luck for rulers that men do not think.", "Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.", "Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.", "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 forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.", "People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.", "My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.", "Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.", "An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.", "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.", "A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.", "What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.", "To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.", "You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.", "Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. ", "Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.", "There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.", "Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'", "There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.", "Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.", "It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.", "Never judge a book by its movie.", "All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.", "Hysteria is only possible with an audience.", "Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.", "That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down.", "You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.", "To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.", "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.", "You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.", "Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?", "Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.", "I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.", "I hate women because they always know where things are.", "Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.", "The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.", "Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.", "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.", "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.", "Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.", "I'm not worried about the bullet with my name on it... just the thousands out there marked 'Occupant.'", "If you’re... asking yourself why I have this success and you don’t, don’t be angry with me—stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back.", "A man that don't believe in destiny don't need to know what his destiny is.", "Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.", "He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.", "There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.", "Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.", "Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.", "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?", "Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.", "You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!", "She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.", "The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.", "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.", "He not busy being born is busy dying.", "It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.", "The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.", "There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.", "Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.", "Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.", "The summer night is like a perfection of thought.", "You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.", "No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.", "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.", "Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.", "We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.", "Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.", "We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.", "There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.", "We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.", "There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.", "After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.", "I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.", "I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.", "A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.", "If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.", "Whatever you are, be a good one.", "Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.", "Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.", "It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.", "[Not smoking the cigarette is] a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.", "This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me.", "Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.", "Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.", "Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.", "We're actors - we're the opposite of people.", "To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.", "For several years more I maintained public relations with the Almighty. But privately, I ceased to associate with him.", "The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.", "For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.", "If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.", "Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.", "Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.", "True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.", "Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.", "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.", "Every artist was first an amateur.", "The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.", "A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.", "Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.", "We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.", "We only do well the things we like doing.", "The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.", "On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.", "Always be a little kinder than necessary.", "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.", "We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?", "Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.", "I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.", "Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.", "My favorite animal is steak.", "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.", "Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.", "It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.", "The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.", "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.", "Examine what is said, not him who speaks.", "Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.", "Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.", "Health is not valued till sickness comes.", "Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.", "I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.", "[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!", "I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.", "I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.", "It is easier to stay out than get out.", "In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.", "Sometimes people are on the outside looking in because they don’t have any money. But sometimes people are on the outside looking in because they don’t have any class.", "My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.", "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.", "If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.", "Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.", "I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.", "It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.", "Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.", "With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?'", "I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.", "I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.", "I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.", "Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.", "See, that's all you're thinking about, is winning. You're confirming your sense of self- worth through outward reward instead of through inner appreciation.", "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.", "There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.", "The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.", "Don't let the bastards grind you down.", "Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.", "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.", "Security is a kind of death.", "None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.", "For visions come not to polluted eyes.", "The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.", "For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.", "Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.", "To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.", "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.", "If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.", "The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.", "Hope is necessary in every condition.", "The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.", "From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.", "Gluttony is not a secret vice.", "Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.", "Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.", "The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.", "I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.", "I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.", "He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it.", "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.", "If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.", "In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.", "Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.", "Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.", "Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.", "Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.", "If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.", "Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.", "Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.", "Oppression can only survive through silence.", "The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.", "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.", "An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.", "To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.", "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.", "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.", "Facts are stupid things.", "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.", "Virtue is choked with foul ambition.", "Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.", "There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.", "No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.", "There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong.", "Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.", "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.", "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.", "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.", "What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.", "Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.", "Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.", "The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.", "Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.", "Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.", "My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.", "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.", "That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.", "There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.", "If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.", "All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.", "Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.", "Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.", "Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.", "How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children", "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.", "Enough organization, enough lists and we think we can control the uncontrollable.", "It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.", "Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!", "Someone's boring me. I think it's me.", "This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money.", "Be not slow to visit the sick.", "Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.", "I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.", "Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.", "Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.", "The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'", "Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly comparing what you have now with what you want. That type of self criticism is significantly deterring.", "George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.", "The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.", "There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.", "A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.", "Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.", "Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.", "Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.", "You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.", "Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.", "Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.", "I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness.", "Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.", "Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.", "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.", "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.", "Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.", "We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.", "Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!", "All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.", "Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.", "Life is an adventure in forgiveness.", "Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.", "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.", "Take what you can use and let the rest go by.", "I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think interior decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.", "I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.", "Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.", "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.", "Disappearing can be quite the coping mechanism for those of us who fear abandonment the very most of all. If we disappear, you have to find us. You're the one who worries. We know where we are, but you can't leave me. I'm in charge and doing the leaving. Not the other way around.", "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.", "Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.", "Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.", "That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.", "Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.", "The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.", "The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.", "When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.", "I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.", "There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!", "Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.", "The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.", "Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.", "Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.", "Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.", "To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.", "The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.", "To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.", "What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.", "I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.", "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.", "Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.", "The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.", "I think there's a god and I know it's not me.", "I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.", "'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.", "The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.", "Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.", "To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.", "One man's folly is another man's wife.", "May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.", "Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.", "My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.", "I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.", "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.", "The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.", "In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.", "Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.", "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.", "When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!", "The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.", "Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.", "Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.", "A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.", "It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.", "Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.", "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.", "He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.", "If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.", "The world belongs to the energetic.", "The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.", "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.", "The way we see the problem is the problem.", "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.", "We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.", "True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.", "If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.", "The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.", "The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended.", "I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.", "One picture is worth a thousand words.", "Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.", "Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.", "The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.", "In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.", "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.", "No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?", "When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.", "America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.", "Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.", "Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.", "Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.", "Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.", "A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.", "Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.", "It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.", "I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.", "All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.", "To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.", "If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.", "Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.", "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.", "People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.", "Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.", "He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.", "If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.", "It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.", "The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.", "A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.", "Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.", "It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.", "Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.", "There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.", "As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.", "I've decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.", "When you're a team of one, you're always captain.", "The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.", "Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.", "Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.", "What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.", "Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.", "Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.", "Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.", "It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words.", "Art has never been made while thinking of art.", "It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.", "Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber: it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! and unfortunately, there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.", "We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.", "You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.", "Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.", "An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.", "...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.", "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.", "Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.", "By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.", "Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.", "The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.", "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.", "It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.", "Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.", "I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.", "It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.", "Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.", "I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.", "That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.", "Kneeling over a trickling mountain stream and pumping every ounce of water you use though a filter can really change your perception of turning on a faucet.", "Goodness is the only investment that never fails.", "How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.", "I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.", "Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.", "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.", "If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.", "We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.", "All great truths begin as blasphemies.", "If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.", "Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.", "This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.", "Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.", "All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.", "We do what we must, and call it by the best names.", "I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.", "Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....", "I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.", "You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.", "You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.", "Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.", "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.", "The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.", "To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.", "If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?", "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.", "The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.", "I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.", "People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.", "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.", "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.", "If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.", "To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.", "Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.", "Give all to love; obey thy heart.", "Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.", "The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.", "Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.", "The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.", "His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.", "When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.", "I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.", "I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.", "The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.", "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.", "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.", "First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.", "There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.", "When yu' can't have why you choose, yu' just choose what you have.", "It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.", "Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.", "A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .", "You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage.", "Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.", "It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.", "To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.", "We are advertis'd by our loving friends.", "A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.", "To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.", "People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.", "By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.", "In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.", "I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.", "We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.", "The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.", "You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.", "Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.", "I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!\" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'", "You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.", "The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.", "Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.", "I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.", "Indecision may or may not be my problem.", "There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.", "Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.", "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.", "It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.", "You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.", "You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.", "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.", "Only fools are positive.", "The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.", "To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.", "Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.", "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.", "My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.", "Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.", "Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.", "A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.", "He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. ", "Friends are born, not made.", "We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.", "What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?", "I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.", "2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.", "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.", "That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.", "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.", "Eye contact is the best accessory.", "Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!", "A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.", "I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.", "I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.", "Praise youth and it will prosper.", "I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.", "It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!", "Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.", "Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.", "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.", "A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.", "Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.", "There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.", "The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.", "Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.", "Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.", "A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.", "The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.", "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.", "It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.", "Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world.", "The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.", "If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.", "It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.", "Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.", "Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.", "No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.", "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.", "I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.", "That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.", "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.", "People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.", "Death likes it when you play hard to get.", "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.", "Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.", "If you don't risk anything you risk even more.", "To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.", "Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families, and ultimately societies together.", "I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.", "Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.", "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.", "A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.", "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.", "The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.", "When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.", "If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.", "It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.", "Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.", "Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.", "The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.", "That's the key to having it all: stop expecting it to look like what you thought it was going to look like.", "Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?", "He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.", "Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.", "When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.", "You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.", "Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.", "When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.", "One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.", "I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. There is not a \"fragment\" in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.", "Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.", "The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.", "The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.", "The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.", "If little else, the brain is an educational toy.", "I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.", "All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.", "Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.", "A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.", "Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?", "An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.", "Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.", "It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.", "Authenticity matters little, though--our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.", "Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.", "Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.", "Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.", "In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.", "If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.", "Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.", "I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking.", "Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.", "Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.", "Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.", "Each body has its art...", "Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.", "Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.", "You gotta dream? You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it, period.", "I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.", "It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.", "Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.", "Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common everyday beauty.", "How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.", "Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.", "Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.", "Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.", "Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.", "Man always gets less than he demands from life.", "If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.", "Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.", "Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.", "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.", "The perfection of art is to conceal art.", "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.", "When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.", "The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).", "It’s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.", "It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.", "Laughter is an instant vacation.", "We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.", "The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.", "Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.", "Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.", "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.", "There is no glory in the tepid smiles of the thousands. It is better to have the uproarious laughter of the hundreds.", "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.", "Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.", "Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.", "Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.", "Life is too short for traffic.", "Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.", "Oh for a book and a shady nook...", "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.", "Life is just a bowl of pits.", "For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.", "If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.", "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.", "If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.", "It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.", "There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.", "Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.", "The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.", "Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.", "If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.", "Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.", "Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.", "If you look good and dress well, you don't need a purpose in life.", "Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.", "In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.", "Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.", "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.", "I can’t talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know this: There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I’m likely to get. But, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.", "Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.", "The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.", "I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.", "You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.", "When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.", "Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.", "Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.", "When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that's partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context.", "The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.", "There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.", "No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.", "You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories.", "Mach-S, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed.", "There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.", "All my possessions for a moment of time.", "Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.", "Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.", "There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.", "The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.", "Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.", "It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.", "I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.", "Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.", "Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun.", "Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.", "The ancestor of every action is a thought.", "Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.", "There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.", "Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.", "Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.", "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.", "It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.", "The best way to try to motivate somebody is by being direct with them. To be honest with them. Lies are never the right way to get your message across.", "You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.", "A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.", "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.", "The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.", "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.", "It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.", "The computer is a moron.", "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.", "Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.", "Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.", "Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.", "Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.", "Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.", "If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.", "Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.", "You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.", "What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.", "My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.", "In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.", "Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.", "In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.", "He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.", "'Where and how can I make this meal better for me?' I asked myself that question before every meal—especially in the beginning.", "Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.", "What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?", "Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.", "Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.", "The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.", "A friend is a gift you give yourself.", "You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.", "A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.", "Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.", "When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.", "My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.", "Energy is eternal delight.", "'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?' 'Well, that would be a start.'", "The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.", "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.", "You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.", "A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.", "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.", "Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.", "There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.", "New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.", "If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.", "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.", "A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.", "Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.", "A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.", "It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.", "The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.", "Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.", "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.", "Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.", "The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.", "The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.", "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.", "Why was I born with such contemporaries?", "[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.", "Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.", "You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.", "The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.", "Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.", "People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.", "Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.", "If you can't be funny, be interesting.", "The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.", "Worries go down better with soup than without.", "It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.", "Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.", "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.", "In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. ", "Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.", "The best way to predict the future is to invent it.", "Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.", "The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.", "When you understand that your feelings are triggered by what you think about an event and not by the event itself, you gain a measure of control. Although you cannot control the things (events) that happen to you, or change your feelings (after all, you feel the way you feel), you can change your thoughts. A change in thoughts often radically alters your feelings.", "You can cover a great deal of country in books.", "It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.", "Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?", "Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.", "Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.", "We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.", "Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.", "To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.", "Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.", "It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.", "A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.", "Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.", "Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people.", "A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.", "A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.", "Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.", "When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.", "Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.", "The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.", "The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. ", "Nothing else exists when art does.", "I know nothing about sex because I was always married.", "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.", "In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.", "They can conquer who believe they can.", "The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.", "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.", "He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.", "Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.", "We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.", "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.", "Never fight an inanimate object.", "Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal.", "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.", "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.", "If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.", "Your primary goal should be to have a great life. You can still have a good day, enjoy your child, and ultimately find happiness, whether your ex is acting like a jerk or a responsible person. Your happiness is not dependent upon someone else.", "A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.", "The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future.", "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.", "I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.", "There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.", "I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.", "If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.", "Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.", "God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.", "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.", "Babies are cool, until you've done everything to do with 'em and you get bored. That's why T.V. shows about babies don't last more than a year.", "Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.", "A mind too active is no mind at all.", "Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.", "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.", "The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.", "Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.", "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.", "All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.", "The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.", "A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.", "Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.", "Publishers are just middlemen. That's all. If artists could remember that more often, they'd save themselves a lot of aggrevation.", "What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?", "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.", "Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.", "Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor.", "Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.", "A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.", "Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.", "Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.", "My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...", "Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.", "Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.", "You're never too old to become younger.", "It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.", "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.", "Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.", "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.", "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.", "Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.", "Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.", "Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.", "A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended.", "In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.", "Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.", "Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.", "Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.", "Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.", "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.", "You threaten to punch someone in the face, what do they do? They duck. You try to punch 'em in the wallet and they always open up.", "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.", "People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.", "How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?", "I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.", "I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich.", "In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.", "He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.", "Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.", "We don't get offered crises, they arrive.", "Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.", "Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.", "It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.", "A finished person is a boring person.", "It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.", "How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.", "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.", "You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.", "It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.", "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.", "We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.", "History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.", "But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.", "No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.", "Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.", "Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!", "When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.", "Children are all foreigners.", "Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.", "Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.", "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.", "What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.", "Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.", "A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes unnecessary.", "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.", "All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.", "A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.", "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.", "Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later.", "Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.", "Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.", "What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.", "When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.", "Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.", "The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.", "If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.", "The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.", "We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.", "A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.", "Interestingly, from an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability? Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do and nobody calls her disabled.", "Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.", "Equations are the devil's sentences.", "Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.", "If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.", "There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.", "No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.", "Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.", "I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.", "All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.", "Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.", "You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable.", "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.", "Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.", "Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.", "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.", "Dude, marriage is the 'get out of loneliness free' card in the Monopoly game of life.", "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.", "We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.", "I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.", "Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.", "Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.", "Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.", "I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.", "Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.", "You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.", "It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.", "If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.", "Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside.", "Man's main task is to give birth to himself.", "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.", "Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.", "The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.", "Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.", "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.", "A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.", "Partying is such sweet sorrow.", "Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.", "A single day is enough to make us a little larger.", "When there's snow on the ground, I like to pretend I'm walking on clouds.", "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.", "Ever heard Victoria's REAL secret? Too much support hurts.", "Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.", "When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.", "All a good letter has to do is make you feel special.", "You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.", "His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.", "An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.", "Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.", "The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.", "If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.", "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.", "Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.", "We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.", "Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.", "A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.", "The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.", "I learned an important lesson in the art of debate. Present your argument clearly, arm yourself with cutting wit and of course, bob and weave!", "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.", "Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.", "Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.", "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.", "...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.", "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.", "It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.", "There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.", "Efficiency is intelligent laziness.", "When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.", "I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.", "The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.", "Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.", "The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.", "The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.", "A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things - a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.", "Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.", "Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.", "Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.", "Hitch your wagon to a star.", "She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.", "A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to relect complexity.", "I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.", "Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.", "Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.", "I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night.", "In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.", "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.", "O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come!", "Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.", "Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.", "Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.", "He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.", "Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.", "I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.", "She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.", "For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.", "When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.", "The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.", "Silence is the virtue of fools.", "The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.", "A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.", "Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.", "It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.", "You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.", "Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it.", "Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.", "Wish not so much to live long as to live well.", "I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.", "When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.", "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.", "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.", "Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.", "Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.", "For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.", "He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend.", "A joke's a very serious thing.", "Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.", "There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, the responsibility lies with you.", "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.", "In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness.", "I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.", "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.", "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.", "Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.", "If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me", "Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.", "You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?", "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.", "To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.", "The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.", "For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.", "We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.", "The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.", "Seasons change, so do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.", "Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a daily basis.", "Just as I had to go through a transition period, I guess [my friends and family] did, too.", "I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but I still keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.", "Luck is the residue of design.", "Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: \"We would be more alive if we did more of this,\" and, \"Life would be more lovely if we did less of that.\" Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.", "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.", "There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.", "If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.", "Strive for excellence, not perfection.", "Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.", "The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.", "The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.", "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.", "Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.", "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.", "Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.", "It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.", "For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.", "Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.", "The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.", "The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.", "I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.", "The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.", "I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.", "I’m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I’m discovering that things were never in my hands.", "The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.", "The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.", "Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?'", "I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.", "The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.", "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.", "Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.", "You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.", "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.", "It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.", "All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.", "If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.", "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.", "The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.", "When you drink the water, remember the spring.", "The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...", "A minute's success pays the failure of years.", "When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.", "To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.", "I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.", "I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.", "Men have become the tools of their tools.", "When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.", "You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.", "Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.", "He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.", "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.", "Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.", "The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.", "To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.", "Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.", "All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.", "Blaming another person for a problem often keeps us from examining the different possibilities that may underlie the issue.", "When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.", "It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.", "The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.", "Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.", "The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.", "Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.", "The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.", "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.", "It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.", "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.", "Nothing fails like success.", "Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.", "Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!", "Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.", "Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.", "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.", "The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.", "When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'", "The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.", "If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.", "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.", "The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.", "Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?", "We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.", "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?", "If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.", "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.", "If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.", "Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.", "When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.", "I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.", "If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.", "Admit that your own private Mount Everest exists. That is half the battle.", "When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.", "I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.", "In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.", "A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.", "I'm still an atheist, thank God.", "He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.", "If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.", "We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.", "Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?", "Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside.", "In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.", "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.", "Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?", "The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.", "Only sick music makes money today.", "Be a fountain, not a drain.", "You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesn’t work that way.", "The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.", "Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.", "When a problem can’t be solved, an attitude of acceptance makes room in your mind and heart for solutions to the problems that do need to be solved.", "Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.", "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.", "Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness.", "The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.", "Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.", "Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.", "No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.", "When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.", "The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.", "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.", "Don't let yourself forget what it's like to be sixteen.", "The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.", "Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.", "If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.", "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?", "Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.", "Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.", "Sometimes you feel other people's pain worse than your own. We're armored against our own troubles. We can't afford to give in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks your... heart.", "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.", "I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.", "Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.", "I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.", "It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.", "In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.", "Whenever I’d try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, I’d take myself through a series of simple tasks so I would get up and go. 1. Get up. 2. Find your house keys. 3. Put on some shoes. 4. Grab your iPod. 5. Walk out the front door.", "The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.", "Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?'", "Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as \"suits.\"", "Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.", "A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.", "If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!", "If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes.", "I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things. ", "Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise.", "Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.", "Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.", "I improve on misquotation.", "Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.", "Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.", "To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.", "God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.", "What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.", "Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.", "Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.", "A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.", "Diluting your product to make it more 'commercial' will just make people like it less.", "To be great is to be misunderstood.", "Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.", "We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.", "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 problem with political jokes is they get elected.", "Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground.", "Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.", "Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.", "But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.", "Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.", "Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.", "During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.", "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.", "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.", "It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.", "What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.", "If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?", "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.", "People fail forward to success.", "The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.", "The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.", "The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.", "Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.", "How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.", "Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.", "My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.", "If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.", "Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.", "A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.", "One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.", "If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.", "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.", "One should count each day a separate life.", "Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.", "And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.", "Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.", "To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.", "Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.", "Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.", "The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.", "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.", "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.", "Politics is applesauce.", "The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.", "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.", "How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.", "We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.", "The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.", "Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.", "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.", "If men were angels, no government would be necessary.", "Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.", "I am open to receive with every breath I breathe.", "Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.", "Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - 'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.'", "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.", "The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.", "If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.", "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 key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it’s not about me. It’s about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you said…' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear.", "A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.", "It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.", "A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.", "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.", "Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.", "It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.", "People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.", "Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.", "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.", "Mistakes are the portals of discovery.", "I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.", "Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.", "Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.", "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.", "...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.", "So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.", "CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.", "It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.", "Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.", "If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.", "I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.", "He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.", "There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.", "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.", "Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.", "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.", "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.", "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.", "Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.", "I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.", "Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.", "Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.", "Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.", "To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.", "In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.", "Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.", "Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.", "There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.", "We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.", "It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.", "I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.", "Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.", "The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.", "The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.", "The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.", "The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.", "No man ever listened himself out of a job.", "What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.", "To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.", "The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.", "If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.", "No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.", "I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.", "One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.", "Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.", "We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.", "It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.", "Frequency of a tragedy does not diminish the wound when it is your own.", "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.", "There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.", "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.", "I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.", "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.", "The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.", "The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.", "This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.", "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.", "A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.", "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.", "A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.", "They can do all because they think they can.", "Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.", "It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.", "Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?", "While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.", "My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...", "If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.", "The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.", "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.", "If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.", "A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.", "Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.", "I am a galley slave to pen and ink.", "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.", "Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?", "If you bow at all, bow low.", "There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.", "We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.", "Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.", "While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.", "I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.", "If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.", "Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.", "Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.", "It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.", "If you continue to expend your energy trying to change things that don’t really matter in the long run or that are not within your sphere of influence, you’ll wind up exhausted and frustrated, with no positive results to show for your effort.", "The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.", "Exit, pursued by a bear.", "How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.", "Life is a risk.", "No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.", "Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.", "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.", "Just because we've been dealt a certain hand, it doesn't mean that we can't choose to rise above - to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted. To try to retain whatever essential humanity we can.", "Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.", "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.", "Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.", "'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.", "As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.", "There is no wisdom without love.", "Hell is full of musical amateurs.", "It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.", "I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.", "Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.", "Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.", "A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.", "When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.", "I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.", "Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.", "The past is finished. There is nothing to b gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.", "Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.", "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.", "The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.", "Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.", "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.", "The less you can live on, the more chance your idea will succeed. This is true even after you’ve 'made it'.", "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.", "One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.", "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.", "The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.", "My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.", "There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.", "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.", "I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.", "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.", "I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.", "Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.", "Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.", "When things are at their worst I find something always happens.", "If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read \"President Can't Swim\".", "Biography lends to death a new terror.", "Good taste is the enemy of comedy.", "Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.", "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.", "A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.", "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.", "Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.", "Children should feel loved because they exist, not because they’ve behaved in a certain way.", "If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.", "I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.", "I'm a born-again atheist.", "America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.", "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.", "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.", "Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.", "Never regret something that once made you smile.", "I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.", "The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.", "September tries its best to have us forget summer.", "Frugality without creativity is deprivation.", "Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.", "Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.", "Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.", "It's never too late to be who you might have been.", "There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.", "I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.", "Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.", "Music is essentially useless, as life is.", "If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.", "The more things change, the more they remain... insane.", "We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.", "A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.", "Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.", "Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.", "Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.", "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.", "I find nothing more depressing than optimism.", "Different and new is just the same old if you keep doing it over and over.", "Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.", "Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.", "The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside...", "Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.", "To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.", "Our heroes are those... who... act above and beyond the call of duty and in so doing give definition to patriotism and elevate all of us.... America is the land of the free because we are the home of the brave.", "Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.", "A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.", "You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.", "Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.", "All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.", "Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.", "Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.", "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.", "The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.", "It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.", "We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.", "People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.", "To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.", "When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?", "I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.", "Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the mann in which he behaves toward fools.", "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.", "Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.", "Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.", "[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.", "Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.", "I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.", "Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.", "Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.", "I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.", "Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.", "It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.", "An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.", "Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.", "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.", "The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.", "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.", "Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.", "You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.", "Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.", "I take care of my things. After all, those of us as has few things to begin with must take care, lest we have fewer.", "Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.", "I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.", "In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.", "To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.", "Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.", "Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.", "When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.", "Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.", "Even the most dangerous look less threatening when they are dead.", "Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.", "It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.", "Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.", "I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.", "Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.", "Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.", "My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me.", "Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.", "Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.", "The world only goes round by misunderstanding.", "True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.", "I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.", "We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.", "Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.", "Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.", "Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.", "If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes.", "Living in a vacuum sucks.", "She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.", "I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.", "Buy the ticket take the Ride", "What I learned from Weight Watchers is that food was meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If we are using it for any other reasons, it is time to take a step back and ask ourselves what’s up.", "No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.", "Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.", "You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.", "An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.", "What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!", "I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.", "The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.", "Stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also the only way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.", "Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else...", "After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.'", "Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.", "No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.", "Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.", "I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.", "The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.", "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.", "Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.", "Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.", "J.F.K.--The Man and the Airport", "We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.", "Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.", "I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.", "Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.", "Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.", "The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. " ]