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一个真正的人应该根植于他的国家之中，但尽管如此，他的视线仍能扫过整个世界。
酒能让一个人对自己更加满意，但不会让这个人对别人更加满意。
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. 
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. 
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats. 
Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning. 
I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly. 
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. 
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. 
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief. 
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! 
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. 
A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men. 
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. 
Music is essentially useless, as life is. 
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. 
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. 
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. 
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. 
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. 
To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice. 
The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them. 
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. 
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. 
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. 
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. 
People fail forward to success. 
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. 
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. 
Spare no expense to save money on this one. 
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. 
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 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. 
We're actors - we're the opposite of people. 
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. 
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand 
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. 
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. 
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. 
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. 
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. 
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion. 
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. 
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. 
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. 
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. 
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. 
Life is not so important as the duties of life. 
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. 
You give my regards to St. Peter, or whoever has his job, but in Hell. 
In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice. 
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening. 
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time. 
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. 
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right. 
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. 
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. 
The multitude of books is making us ignorant. 
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. 
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. 
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. 
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. 
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. 
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. 
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. 
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages. 
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. 
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. 
I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me. 
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand 
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. 
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. 
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. 
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. 
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. 
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots. 
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own. 
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think. 
Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own. 
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. 
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. 
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. 
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. 
I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor. 
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. 
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. 
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. 
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. 
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. 
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. 
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. 
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. 
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. 
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. 
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. 
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. 
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. 
Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more. 
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. 
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. 
Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story. 
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. 
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. 
I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence. 
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. 
Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded. 
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. 
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. 
Admit that your own private Mount Everest exists. That is half the battle. 
Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. 
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are. 
The sweet and the sour: this is what makes great art. 
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. 
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. 
Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. 
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.' 
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. 
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. 
No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. 
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. 
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. 
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. 
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. 
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. 
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. 
When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first. 
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. 
The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong. 
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. 
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. 
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse. 
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. 
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. 
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. 
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. 
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. 
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. 
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. 
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. 
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. 
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. 
What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say? 
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth. 
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. 
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. 
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. 
If you believe everything you read, better not read. 
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions. 
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. 
I always like a good math solution to any love problem. 
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. 
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. 
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. 
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. 
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. 
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. 
I dream, therefore I become. 
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. 
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. 
Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon. 
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. 
In summer, the song sings itself. 
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. 
Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it. 
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. 
Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better. 
Keep cool and you command everybody. 
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. 
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. 
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. 
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. 
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. 
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. 
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. 
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. 
It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. 
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. 
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life. 
The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves. 
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully. 
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. 
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability. 
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. 
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer. 
I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are. 
A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood. 
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. 
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. 
Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine. 
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. 
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. 
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. 
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. 
Well done is better than well said. 
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. 
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. 
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. 
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage. 
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 have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. 
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 wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are. 
I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. 
Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office. 
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. 
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love. 
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. 
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. 
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. 
Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us -  Life is the test of us! 
After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted. 
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise. 
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. 
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. 
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. 
Reality continues to ruin my life. 
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. 
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. 
I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. 
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. 
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. 
Wagner's music is better than it sounds. 
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. 
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. 
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. 
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. 
Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate. 
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. 
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load. 
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. 
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. 
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. 
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. 
The world is round; it has no point. 
God must become an activity in our consciousness. 
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. 
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. 
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. 
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. 
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it. 
It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him. 
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. 
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. 
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. 
I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight. 
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.' 
God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. 
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. 
Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day. 
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body. 
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. 
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. 
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. 
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. 
I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. 
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. 
There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. 
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile. 
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. 
One of the joys we have in being human is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case as it comes to us. We are not robots who are forced into behaviors by their programming. We see things; we think about things; and we choose our course of action or beliefs appropriately. And as long as that remains true of us, we will live every day of our lives on one slippery slope or another. There is no reason to fear this. 
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. 
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. 
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.' 
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. 
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. 
It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. 
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. 
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. 
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause. 
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. 
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. 
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time. 
Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens. 
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you. 
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. 
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. 
When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones. 
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. 
I believe that [everyone] is the keeper of a dream - and by tuning into one another's secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers. 
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people. 
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. 
Aspiring to a small business that does what it does very well is a noble pursuit. 
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. 
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. 
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. 
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. 
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. 
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming. 
Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time. 
You give my regards to St. Peter, or whoever has his job, but in Hell. 
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure. 
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. 
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. 
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. 
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. 
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. 
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. 
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. 
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. 
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. 
Energy is eternal delight. 
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. 
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.  
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. 
Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved. 
Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are. 
May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting. 
No good deed goes unpunished. 
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. 
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale. 
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. 
Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt. 
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. 
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. 
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry. 
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. 
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. 
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it. 
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. 
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity. 
Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax. 
Diluting your product to make it more 'commercial' will just make people like it less. 
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. 
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. 
A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. 
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. 
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. 
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?' 
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. 
She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. 
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. 
I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill. 
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. 
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. 
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon. 
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. 
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. 
I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere. 
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. 
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. 
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. 
She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what. 
The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. 
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. 
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. 
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. 
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. 
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. 
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. 
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. 
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. 
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place. 
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. 
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. 
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. 
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. 
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. 
Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it. 
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. 
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. 
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. 
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. 
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. 
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. 
Examine what is said, not him who speaks. 
When you strike at a king, you must kill him. 
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway. 
You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust. 
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully. 
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming. 
There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. 
It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult. 
If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes. 
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. 
I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. 
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. 
What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds. 
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. 
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. 
There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime. 
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. 
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. 
Every hero becomes a bore at last. 
[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. 
Life is an adventure in forgiveness. 
Life is something that everyone should try at least once. 
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. 
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. 
The covers of this book are too far apart. 
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself! 
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager." 
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. 
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy. 
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. 
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. 
Do not employ handsome servants. 
I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. 
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. 
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. 
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. 
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. 
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. 
No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors. 
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. 
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. 
Woe be to him that reads but one book. 
I celebrate myself, and sing myself. 
[Spring is] a true reconstructionist. 
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. 
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. 
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. 
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 don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. 
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. 
Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own. 
No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to. 
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. 
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. 
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. 
To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success. 
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. 
It's never just a game when you're winning. 
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. 
Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us -  Life is the test of us! 
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. 
A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members. 
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it. 
When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business. 
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. 
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. 
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. 
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. 
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. 
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. 
You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time. 
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. 
Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. 
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. 
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. 
If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue. 
When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. 
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. 
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind. 
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. 
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. 
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. 
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are. 
Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles. 
Sometimes the joys of our youth do not translate to joys in adulthood and it's hard to release them. 
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. 
People will buy anything that is one to a customer. 
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. 
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. 
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. 
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. 
Our patience will achieve more than our force. 
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. 
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. 
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. 
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there. 
No man is an Island, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine... 
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. 
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. 
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. 
If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. 
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me. 
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. 
A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. 
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions. 
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. 
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. 
Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs? 
The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them! 
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. 
No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back. 
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. 
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public. 
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. 
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. 
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. 
A poem is no place for an idea. 
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. 
The wisest mind has something yet to learn. 
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. 
Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path. 
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. 
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. 
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good. 
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. 
Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money. 
The highest result of education is tolerance. 
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. 
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. 
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. 
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. 
[Spring is] when life's alive in everything. 
I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. 
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. 
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. 
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. 
The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE. 
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. 
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. 
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. 
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. 
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign. 
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. 
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. 
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. 
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. 
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. 
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men. 
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people. 
I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward. 
Life is just one damned thing after another. 
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are. 
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age. 
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. 
If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. 
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. 
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. 
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec. 
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. 
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. 
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone. 
Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd. 
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. 
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. 
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. 
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. 
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again. 
I felt like poisoning a monk. 
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. 
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. 
Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it. 
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. 
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. 
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. 
The only thing I like about rich people is their money. 
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth. 
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. 
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. 
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. 
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. 
A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out. 
You can't change what you've done, so you might as well just take pride in it. 
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. 
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary. 
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. 
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. 
When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win. 
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. 
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. 
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. 
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. 
We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us. 
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. 
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. 
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. 
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one. 
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. 
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. 
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. 
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. 
There is no wisdom without love. 
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. 
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure. 
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? 
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose. 
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. 
You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more. 
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. 
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. 
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself... 
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. 
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. 
The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity. 
Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends. 
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. 
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. 
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. 
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. 
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. 
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.' 
Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return. 
If you believe everything you read, better not read. 
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. 
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. 
May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down. 
McCabe's Law: Nobody _has_ to do _anything_. 
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. 
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. 
Strive for excellence, not perfection. 
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. 
Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us. 
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special. 
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. 
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. 
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. 
When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable. 
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. 
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. 
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!' 
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. 
We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself. 
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. 
What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people? 
I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days. 
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. 
I find nothing more depressing than optimism. 
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. 
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. 
He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." 
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. 
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 am at two with nature. 
Be gentle with the young. 
I know nothing about sex because I was always married. 
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. 
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. 
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. 
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. 
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by,  And that has made all the difference. 
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'. 
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. 
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. 
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. 
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. 
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. 
A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. 
There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else. 
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. 
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. 
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. 
In the end, everything is a gag. 
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. 
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? 
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. 
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know. 
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. 
Food is the most primitive form of comfort. 
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. 
Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it. 
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. 
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? 
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. 
I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious. 
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. 
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. 
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. 
The customer doesn't expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong. 
Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed. 
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. 
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. 
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 have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. 
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.' 
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. 
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. 
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. 
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? 
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors. 
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. 
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 a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake. 
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. 
Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at. 
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. 
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. 
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. 
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. 
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. 
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. 
I hate music, especially when it's played. 
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. 
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. 
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. 
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. 
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. 
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. 
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. 
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. 
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. 
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. 
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? 
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. 
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. 
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. 
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice. 
...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. 
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. 
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. 
The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest. 
The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE. 
Can I ever know you Or you know me? 
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality. 
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. 
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. 
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. 
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. 
Never fight an inanimate object. 
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. 
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. 
Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself. 
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. 
Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid. 
The greatest danger to our future is apathy. 
Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. 
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. 
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. 
A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily. 
I think the world is run by 'C' students. 
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions. 
I don't hire anybody who's not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them. 
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. 
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. 
People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you. 
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. 
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. 
Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase. 
A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. 
You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone. 
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. 
Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy. 
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. 
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. 
Life is a risk. 
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. 
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. 
Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect. 
Only fools are positive. 
To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship. 
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. 
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. 
Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return. 
[Television is] the triumph of machine over people. 
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. 
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. 
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. 
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later. 
All things are difficult before they are easy. 
I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading. 
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. 
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. 
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. 
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. 
A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. 
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. 
I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading. 
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. 
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. 
Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self