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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
People fail forward to success.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Vigorous writing is concise.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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.
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 the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
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.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
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.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
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.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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.
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.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
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.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
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?
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.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
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.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
I didn't even breathe.
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.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
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.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
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.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
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.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
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.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
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 aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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.
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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
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.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
I 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.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
I am not young enough to know everything.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
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.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
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.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
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.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
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.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
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.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
A smiling face is half the meal.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
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.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
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.
I stand in awe of my body.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Maybe they were terrorists!
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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