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1A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. 
2Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. 
3You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. 
4Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. 
5When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats. 
6Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning. 
7I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly. 
8Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. 
9Journalism 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. 
10We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief. 
11Living 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! 
12Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. 
13A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men. 
14Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. 
15Music is essentially useless, as life is. 
16We 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. 
17An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. 
18Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. 
19Our 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. 
20We 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. 
21To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice. 
22The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them. 
23The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. 
24What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. 
25If 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. 
26It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. 
27People fail forward to success. 
28My 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. 
29Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. 
30Spare no expense to save money on this one. 
31A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. 
32Man 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. 
33The 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. 
34We're actors - we're the opposite of people. 
35Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. 
36Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand 
37Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. 
38In 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. 
39Friends, 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. 
40Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. 
41Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. 
42A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion. 
43You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. 
44The 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. 
45The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. 
46The 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. 
47...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. 
48Life is not so important as the duties of life. 
49Just 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. 
50You give my regards to St. Peter, or whoever has his job, but in Hell. 
51In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice. 
52Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening. 
53First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time. 
54Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. 
55When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right. 
56Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. 
57I 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. 
58The multitude of books is making us ignorant. 
59A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. 
60Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. 
61Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. 
62Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. 
63Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. 
64The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. 
65A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. 
66If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages. 
67Man 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. 
68The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. 
69I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me. 
70Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand 
71The 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. 
72I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. 
73Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. 
74Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. 
75Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. 
76There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots. 
77There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own. 
78Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think. 
79Conquer 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. 
80There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. 
81People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. 
82I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. 
83Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. 
84I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor. 
85Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. 
86Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. 
87One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. 
88When 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. 
89I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. 
90The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. 
91Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. 
92A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. 
93Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. 
94Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. 
95When 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. 
96Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. 
97As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. 
98Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more. 
99I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. 
100Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. 
101Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story. 
102There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. 
103At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. 
104I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence. 
105Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. 
106Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded. 
107All 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. 
108To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. 
109Admit that your own private Mount Everest exists. That is half the battle. 
110Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. 
111In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are. 
112The sweet and the sour: this is what makes great art. 
113Remember 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. 
114Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. 
115Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. 
116So 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.' 
117If 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. 
118To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. 
119No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. 
120To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. 
121No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. 
122All 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. 
123I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. 
124The 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. 
125I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. 
126When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first. 
127The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection. 
128The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong. 
129One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. 
130If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. 
131I'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. 
132The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. 
133Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. 
134Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. 
135I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. 
136A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. 
137The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. 
138I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. 
139Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. 
140There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. 
141He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. 
142What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say? 
143What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth. 
144Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. 
145I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. 
146When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. 
147If you believe everything you read, better not read. 
148Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions. 
149I 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. 
150I always like a good math solution to any love problem. 
151To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. 
152Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. 
153Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. 
154Know 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. 
155By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. 
156I 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. 
157I dream, therefore I become. 
158We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. 
159He 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. 
160Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon. 
161A 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. 
162In summer, the song sings itself. 
163Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. 
164Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it. 
165On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. 
166Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better. 
167Keep cool and you command everybody. 
168He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. 
169I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. 
170Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. 
171Men 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. 
172The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. 
173I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. 
174See, 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. 
175We 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. 
176It'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. 
177Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. 
178Feeling 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. 
179The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves. 
180Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully. 
181An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. 
182Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. 
183Trying 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. 
184Sometimes 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. 
185If 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. 
186It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability. 
187Acting 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. 
188I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer. 
189I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are. 
190A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood. 
191Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. 
192It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. 
193Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing. 
194If 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. 
195Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. 
196It 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. 
197The 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. 
198Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. 
199Among 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. 
200Never 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. 
201The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. 
202Well done is better than well said. 
203I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. 
204There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. 
205Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. 
206To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage. 
207The 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. 
208I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. 
209People 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. 
210I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are. 
211I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. 
212Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office. 
213There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. 
214Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love. 
215It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. 
216You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. 
217A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. 
218Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us -  Life is the test of us! 
219After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted. 
220Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise. 
221You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. 
222Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. 
223Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. 
224Reality continues to ruin my life. 
225Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. 
226I 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. 
227I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. 
228There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. 
229Don'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. 
230Wagner's music is better than it sounds. 
231Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. 
232Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. 
233Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. 
234Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. 
235Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate. 
236Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. 
237You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load. 
238Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. 
239Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. 
240I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. 
241Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. 
242The world is round; it has no point. 
243God must become an activity in our consciousness. 
244I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts. 
245Getting 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. 
246Few 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. 
247True 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. 
248The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it. 
249It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him. 
250Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. 
251Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. 
252If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. 
253I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight. 
254Success 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.' 
255God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. 
256The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. 
257Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day. 
258Every man is the builder of a temple called his body. 
259Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. 
260We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. 
261Good 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. 
262Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. 
263I 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. 
264A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. 
265There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. 
266When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile. 
267Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. 
268One 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. 
269I 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. 
270We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. 
271The 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.' 
272The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. 
273Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. 
274It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. 
275Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. 
276It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. 
277So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause. 
278He 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. 
279The 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. 
280If 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. 
281Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens. 
282I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you. 
283There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. 
284Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. 
285When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones. 
286You 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. 
287I 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. 
288Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people. 
289Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. 
290Aspiring to a small business that does what it does very well is a noble pursuit. 
291Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. 
292One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. 
293Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. 
294A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. 
295An 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. 
296We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming. 
297Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time. 
298You give my regards to St. Peter, or whoever has his job, but in Hell. 
299Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure. 
300Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. 
301A 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. 
302To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. 
303A schedule defends from chaos and whim. 
304This 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. 
305The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. 
306We 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. 
307Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. 
308Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. 
309Energy is eternal delight. 
310It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us. 
311Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.  
312When 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. 
313Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved. 
314Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are. 
315May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting. 
316No good deed goes unpunished. 
317Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. 
318You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale. 
319Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. 
320Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt. 
321Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. 
322Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. 
323If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry. 
324If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. 
325Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. 
326People want economy and they will pay any price to get it. 
327I 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. 
328Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity. 
329Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax. 
330Diluting your product to make it more 'commercial' will just make people like it less. 
331Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. 
332I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. 
333A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. 
334There 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. 
335Interestingly, 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. 
336I 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?' 
337Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. 
338She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. 
339The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. 
340I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill. 
341Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. 
342I 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. 
343The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon. 
344Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. 
345The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. 
346I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere. 
347Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. 
348For 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. 
349In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. 
350She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what. 
351The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. 
352Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. 
353A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. 
354If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. 
355I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. 
356It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. 
357People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. 
358Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. 
359Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. 
360If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place. 
361It's kind of fun to do the impossible. 
362Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. 
363Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. 
364I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. 
365Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. 
366Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it. 
367Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. 
368Historically, 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. 
369Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. 
370Here'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. 
371There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. 
372You 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. 
373Examine what is said, not him who speaks. 
374When you strike at a king, you must kill him. 
375True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway. 
376You'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. 
377Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully. 
378We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming. 
379There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. 
380It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult. 
381If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes. 
382The 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. 
383I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. 
384Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. 
385What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds. 
386When 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. 
387When 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. 
388There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime. 
389You 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. 
390Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. 
391Every hero becomes a bore at last. 
392[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. 
393Life is an adventure in forgiveness. 
394Life is something that everyone should try at least once. 
395The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. 
396Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. 
397The covers of this book are too far apart. 
398Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself! 
399After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager." 
400A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. 
401Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy. 
402Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. 
403Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. 
404Do not employ handsome servants. 
405I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. 
406Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. 
407Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. 
408I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. 
409Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. 
410A 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. 
411No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors. 
412The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. 
413The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment. 
414Woe be to him that reads but one book. 
415I celebrate myself, and sing myself. 
416[Spring is] a true reconstructionist. 
417The 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. 
418We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. 
419Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. 
420Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. 
421I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. 
422A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. 
423Conquer 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. 
424No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to. 
425When 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. 
426To 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. 
427Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. 
428To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success. 
429Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. 
430It's never just a game when you're winning. 
431And 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. 
432Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us -  Life is the test of us! 
433Wonder 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. 
434A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members. 
435The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it. 
436When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business. 
437The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. 
438What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. 
439If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. 
440Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. 
441The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. 
442There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. 
443You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time. 
444The 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. 
445Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. 
446Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. 
447Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. 
448If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue. 
449When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. 
450Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. 
451Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind. 
452The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. 
453Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. 
454We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. 
455When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are. 
456Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles. 
457Sometimes the joys of our youth do not translate to joys in adulthood and it?s hard to release them. 
458To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. 
459People will buy anything that is one to a customer. 
460It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. 
461Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. 
462No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. 
463Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. 
464Our patience will achieve more than our force. 
465If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. 
466They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. 
467Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. 
468Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there. 
469No man is an Island, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine... 
470What 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. 
471Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. 
472A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. 
473If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. 
474I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me. 
475Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. 
476A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. 
477The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions. 
478If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. 
479I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. 
480Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs? 
481The 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! 
482Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. 
483No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back. 
484Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. 
485Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public. 
486Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. 
487Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. 
488There 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. 
489A poem is no place for an idea. 
490If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. 
491The wisest mind has something yet to learn. 
492Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. 
493Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path. 
494Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. 
495The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. 
496The 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. 
497The 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. 
498Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money. 
499The highest result of education is tolerance. 
500Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. 
501It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. 
502A 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. 
503When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. 
504[Spring is] when life's alive in everything. 
505I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. 
506That 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. 
507Looks 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. 
508Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. 
509The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE. 
510I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves. 
511A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. 
512The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. 
513When 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. 
514He 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. 
515Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. 
516It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. 
517To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. 
518There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. 
519Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. 
520Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men. 
521Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people. 
522I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward. 
523Life is just one damned thing after another. 
524When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are. 
525Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age. 
526It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. 
527If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. 
528Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. 
529Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. 
530Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec. 
531Go 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. 
532One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. 
533Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone. 
534Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd. 
535The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. 
536Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. 
537Before 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. 
538Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. 
539History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again. 
540I felt like poisoning a monk. 
541Time 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. 
542The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. 
543Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it. 
544We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. 
545It 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. 
546The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. 
547The only thing I like about rich people is their money. 
548What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth. 
549You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. 
550A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. 
551Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. 
552Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. 
553A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out. 
554You can't change what you've done, so you might as well just take pride in it. 
555Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. 
556Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary. 
557Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be. 
558It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. 
559When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win. 
560Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. 
561I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. 
562In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. 
563To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. 
564We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us. 
565Photographers 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. 
566Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. 
567Eat 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. 
568My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one. 
569It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. 
570There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. 
571Feeling 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. 
572Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. 
573There is no wisdom without love. 
574Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. 
575I'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. 
576Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? 
577Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose. 
578To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. 
579You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more. 
580Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. 
581Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. 
582My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself... 
583For 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. 
584I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. 
585The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity. 
586Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends. 
587Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. 
588In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. 
589When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. 
590Is 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. 
591Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. 
592The 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.' 
593Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return. 
594If you believe everything you read, better not read. 
595As 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. 
596To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. 
597May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down. 
598McCabe's Law: Nobody _has_ to do _anything_. 
599If 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. 
600Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. 
601Strive for excellence, not perfection. 
602The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. 
603Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us. 
604Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special. 
605Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. 
606Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. 
607The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. 
608When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable. 
609He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. 
610Go 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. 
611I 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!' 
612Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. 
613We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself. 
614Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. 
615What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people? 
616I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days. 
617Flowers 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. 
618I find nothing more depressing than optimism. 
619Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. 
620Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. 
621He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." 
622A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. 
623It 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. 
624I am at two with nature. 
625Be gentle with the young. 
626I know nothing about sex because I was always married. 
627It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. 
628You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. 
629Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. 
630It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. 
631Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by,  And that has made all the difference. 
632People 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'. 
633I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. 
634The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. 
635It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. 
636It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. 
637Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. 
638A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. 
639There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else. 
640You 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. 
641In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. 
642How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. 
643In the end, everything is a gag. 
644There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. 
645If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? 
646One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. 
647There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know. 
648To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. 
649Food is the most primitive form of comfort. 
650Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. 
651Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it. 
652Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. 
653Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? 
654Before 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. 
655I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious. 
656You live and learn. At any rate, you live. 
657This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. 
658Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. 
659The customer doesn't expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong. 
660Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed. 
661If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. 
662Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. 
663If 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. 
664The 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. 
665If 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. 
666Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. 
667If 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. 
668To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. 
669My 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.' 
670It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. 
671If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. 
672Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. 
673Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? 
674Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors. 
675Many 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. 
676Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral. 
677When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake. 
678Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. 
679Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at. 
680Ideals 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. 
681One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. 
682Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. 
683Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. 
684A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. 
685Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. 
686I hate music, especially when it's played. 
687Never 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. 
688Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. 
689Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. 
690Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. 
691A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. 
692America'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. 
693If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. 
694Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. 
695Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. 
696The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. 
697If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? 
698Maybe 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. 
699Happiness 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. 
700If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. 
701Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice. 
702...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. 
703No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. 
704The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. 
705The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest. 
706The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE. 
707Can I ever know you Or you know me? 
708Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality. 
709If 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. 
710Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. 
711Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. 
712I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. 
713Never fight an inanimate object. 
714This 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. 
715You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. 
716Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself. 
717Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. 
718Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid. 
719The greatest danger to our future is apathy. 
720Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. 
721You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. 
722One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. 
723A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily. 
724I think the world is run by 'C' students. 
725You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions. 
726I don't hire anybody who's not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them. 
727A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. 
728Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. 
729People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you. 
730To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. 
731Age 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. 
732Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase. 
733A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. 
734You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone. 
735The 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. 
736Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy. 
737You 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. 
738Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. 
739Life is a risk. 
740If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. 
741There 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. 
742Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect. 
743Only fools are positive. 
744To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship. 
745I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. 
746Be 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. 
747Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return. 
748[Television is] the triumph of machine over people. 
749Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. 
750In 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. 
751He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. 
752Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later. 
753All things are difficult before they are easy. 
754I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading. 
755The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. 
756A 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. 
757You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. 
758Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. 
759A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. 
760Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. 
761I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading. 
762The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. 
763Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. 
764Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper. 
765We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us! 
766The family is the country of the heart. 
767Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there?s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what?s the fun in eating anything you want to? 
768It's not the will to win that matters...everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. 
769Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. 
770Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. 
771Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. 
772Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. 
773Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. 
774It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights. Yes we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes we can. 
775A book of quotations . . . can never be complete. 
776The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. 
777It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. 
778I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from. 
779Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture. 
780The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. 
781The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. 
782The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger. 
783No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. 
784Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. 
785The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. 
786My toughest fight was with my first wife. 
787Health is not valued till sickness comes. 
788Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. 
789For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear. 
790Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood. 
791Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. 
792[Spring is] when life's alive in everything. 
793I don?t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given. 
794My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years. 
795We are most alive when we're in love. 
796Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear. 
797Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. 
798The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. 
799Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. 
800Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. 
801The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. 
802Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. 
803I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. 
804If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. 
805Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it. 
806Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. 
807The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste. 
808I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. 
809The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel. 
810Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. 
811The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf. 
812Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us. 
813The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. 
814If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door. 
815There comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it's all just conditioning. It's the rare man who truly know who he is. 
816To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. 
817Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. 
818If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. 
819Follow the grain in your own wood. 
820Enough organization, enough lists and we think we can control the uncontrollable. 
821A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't? 
822Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. 
823Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity. 
824Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. 
825We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes. 
826Love can be sordid only if you work at it. 
827Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them. 
828Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished. 
829Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. 
830We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. 
831Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. 
832When I see somebody 'suffering for their art', it%uFFFDs usually a case of them not knowing where that red line is, not knowing where the sovereignty lies. 
833One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. 
834Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high. 
835Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. 
836You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone. 
837You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. 
838People are fond of spouting out the old clich%uFFFD about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is somehow merit in utter failure. Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide. 
839If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. 
840When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. 
841The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions. 
842Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. 
843This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. 
844If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had. 
845Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others. 
846Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. 
847Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,  And toss them on the wheels of Chance. 
848A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. 
849The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. 
850To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent. 
851I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind. 
852He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have. 
853The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. 
854Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. 
855I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here. 
856We think in generalities, but we live in detail. 
857The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. 
858The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. 
859Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. 
860Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. 
861Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. 
862...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. 
863Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields. 
864It?s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it. 
865The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. 
866They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. 
867Maybe this world is another planet's hell. 
868I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours. 
869I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. 
870An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. 
871You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do. 
872No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded. 
873It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong. 
874Be neither too remote nor too familiar. 
875A witty saying proves nothing. 
876We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. 
877It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. 
878I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. 
879No one forgives with more grace and love than a child. 
880Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy. 
881Parents are never as bad as kids think they are. 
882Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism. 
883I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that. 
884Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there. 
885Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time. 
886Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's. 
887Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. 
888The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it?s not about me. It?s about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you said?' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear. 
889I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. 
890Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. 
891If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun. 
892For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children. 
893Never have children, only grandchildren. 
894Success only hurts the first time. 
895Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please. 
896I 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. 
897Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. 
898If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. 
899Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love. 
900All that counts in life is intention. 
901I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people. 
902Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. 
903The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. 
904Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. 
905Underpromise; overdeliver. 
906The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. 
907Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. 
908To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination. 
909Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. 
910I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. 
911Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? 
912Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less. 
913It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. 
914The ancestor of every action is a thought. 
915It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. 
916We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. 
917A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. 
918Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. 
919Our 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. 
920Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms. 
921This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. 
922I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. 
923Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal. 
924Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. 
925'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?' 'Well, that would be a start.' 
926Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. 
927Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world. 
928A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing... It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return. 
929Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. 
930Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. 
931Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. 
932Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly. 
933The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered. 
934If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant. 
935There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there. There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years ? block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand. 
936A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. 
937If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had. 
938Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair. 
939No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. 
940The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before. 
941There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots. 
942Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. 
943He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. 
944Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family. 
945There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me it'd be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how its emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why. 
946No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. 
947It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space. 
948It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. 
949It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. 
950There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. 
951If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city. 
952It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. 
953Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic! 
954As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. 
955Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. 
956For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children. 
957Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. 
958Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone. 
959Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few. 
960Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. 
961A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. 
962The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. 
963Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy. 
964There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. 
965Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. 
966You don?t get to pick your own nickname. They?ve gotta give you one. It?s like we?re all tryin? to make pets out of each other and we?re not comfortable unless we get to name ?em. 
967Respect a man, he will do the more. 
968We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. 
969If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. 
970The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. 
971A 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. 
972It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. 
973Antonym, n.: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of. 
974Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. 
975I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. 
976Facts are the enemy of truth. 
977The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. 
978You learn a lot about people when you play games with them. 
979If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. 
980Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. 
981Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive. 
982I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. 
983The purpose of life is to fight maturity. 
984If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? 
985There are more fools in the world than there are people. 
986It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. 
987Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. 
988Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. 
989In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings. 
990One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best. 
991I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. 
992Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. 
993You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. 
994Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. 
995The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. 
996The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. 
997The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. 
998Praise the bridge that carried you over. 
999Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. 
1000The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. 
1001The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. 
1002The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. 
1003I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. 
1004Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. 
1005I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. 
1006Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. 
1007Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either. 
1008Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money. 
1009I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. 
1010It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. 
1011A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping. 
1012Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. 
1013Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. 
1014If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see. 
1015When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision. 
1016Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully. 
1017The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. 
1018That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. 
1019People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside. 
1020In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. 
1021Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. 
1022I once read cooking is something you do for your family. But when you?re alone you sometimes have to treat yourself like family. And now that my apartment?s redolent with the smell of food it feels more like a home than a box where I hang my hat. 
1023I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble. 
1024Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. 
1025Partying is such sweet sorrow. 
1026A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best. 
1027It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space. 
1028I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. 
1029The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. 
1030Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made. 
1031...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work. 
1032A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. 
1033Indecision may or may not be my problem. 
1034When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected. 
1035Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. 
1036I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to. 
1037There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. 
1038An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so. 
1039The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' 
1040It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit. 
1041Acting 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. 
1042Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. 
1043Make your life a mission - not an intermission. 
1044If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim". 
1045There are too many people, and too few human beings. 
1046The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. 
1047A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. 
1048People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. 
1049Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results. 
1050We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. 
1051The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession. 
1052You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more. 
1053Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. 
1054Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. 
1055Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. 
1056In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. 
1057Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. 
1058If 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. 
1059I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it. 
1060I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for. 
1061Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. 
1062The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. 
1063I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. 
1064Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form. 
1065A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. 
1066Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper. 
1067In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. 
1068The future is much like the present, only longer. 
1069Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. 
1070Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. 
1071Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning. 
1072You create your opportunities by asking for them. 
1073Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk. 
1074There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it. 
1075A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. 
1076You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others. 
1077Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way. 
1078Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. 
1079Our envy of others devours us most of all. 
1080The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law. 
1081When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people. 
1082It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life. 
1083Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. 
1084Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. 
1085Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. 
1086Sport is imposing order on what was chaos. 
1087The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results. 
1088The way we distinguish ourselves is by showing our individuality. 
1089There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. 
1090California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange. 
1091Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. 
1092When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake. 
1093There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. 
1094If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. 
1095Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. 
1096The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last. 
1097It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward. 
1098Act as if it were impossible to fail. 
1099Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. 
1100You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. 
1101It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. 
1102Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art. 
1103It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. 
1104I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. 
1105I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run. 
1106Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. 
1107Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. 
1108We think in generalities, but we live in detail. 
1109Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. 
1110There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. 
1111Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. 
1112I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. 
1113Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. 
1114Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible. 
1115I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind. 
1116Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes. 
1117Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. 
1118The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. 
1119Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. 
1120In the end, everything is a gag. 
1121America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. 
1122Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family. 
1123Dude, marriage is the 'get out of loneliness free' card in the Monopoly game of life. 
1124Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music. 
1125A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. 
1126Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. 
1127He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. 
1128What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. 
1129As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue. 
1130It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living. 
1131The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it. 
1132The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. 
1133Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. 
1134The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. 
1135We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights. 
1136Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. 
1137One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul. 
1138That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. 
1139I am at two with nature. 
1140Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. 
1141With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing. 
1142The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. 
1143If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. 
1144All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. 
1145We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. 
1146Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. 
1147Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. 
1148What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! 
1149The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. 
1150Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? 
1151A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. 
1152Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent. 
1153Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters. 
1154That's just the way things go. We meet people, get to know them and then they get up and leave us behind. 
1155Television ? a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. 
1156It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important. 
1157I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. 
1158In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. 
1159Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? 
1160Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path. 
1161One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. 
1162Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. 
1163To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. 
1164An 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. 
1165If 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. 
1166Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. 
1167What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. 
1168Hope is necessary in every condition. 
1169What luck for rulers that men do not think. 
1170A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. 
1171Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy. 
1172How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it. 
1173Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. 
1174It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable. 
1175I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult. 
1176I 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. 
1177A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper. 
1178War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with. 
1179The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O. 
1180I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. 
1181I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. 
1182Reality continues to ruin my life. 
1183Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. 
1184Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked. 
1185The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. 
1186Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. 
1187Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique. 
1188Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. 
1189A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love. 
1190Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? 
1191The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. 
1192Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. 
1193We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. 
1194I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember. 
1195Each body has its art... 
1196My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. 
1197It is never too late to give up our prejudices. 
1198There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do. 
1199My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing. 
1200Literature is news that stays news. 
1201Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. 
1202If you bow at all, bow low. 
1203Respect a man, he will do the more. 
1204Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment. 
1205The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent. 
1206Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. 
1207Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain. 
1208If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. 
1209When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. 
1210The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. 
1211Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. 
1212Hitch your wagon to a star. 
1213Listen. 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. 
1214Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. 
1215Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. 
1216My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. 
1217Who begins too much accomplishes little. 
1218Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. 
1219It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside. 
1220It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. 
1221Art is science made clear. 
1222It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules. 
1223There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life. 
1224Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving. 
1225An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. 
1226Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. 
1227The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. 
1228The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. 
1229They always talk who never think. 
1230Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. 
1231It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. 
1232Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits. 
1233Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. 
1234For 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. 
1235We are most alive when we're in love. 
1236Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms... This is a process that requires trust and builds trust. 
1237As I was walking up the stair  I met a man who wasn't there.  He wasn't there again today.  I wish, I wish he'd stay away. 
1238Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. 
1239Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. 
1240I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. 
1241If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. 
1242Imagination is more important than knowledge... 
1243If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech. 
1244A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. 
1245The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. 
1246Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished. 
1247More often than not, a hero?s most epic battle is the one you never see; it?s the battle that goes on within him or herself. 
1248Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? 
1249Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life. 
1250It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. 
1251Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. 
1252Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement. 
1253Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. 
1254The beginning is always today. 
1255When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective. 
1256He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it. 
1257Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk. 
1258Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. 
1259Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. 
1260Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. 
1261There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. 
1262Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. 
1263Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. 
1264Life is full of obstacle illusions. 
1265There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. 
1266When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones. 
1267We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. 
1268It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. 
1269To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. 
1270Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. 
1271A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. 
1272Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them. 
1273Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly. 
1274On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. 
1275If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. 
1276Every man is the builder of a temple called his body. 
1277To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it. 
1278You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait. 
1279Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first. 
1280If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. 
1281I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. 
1282Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. 
1283Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. 
1284There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. 
1285It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister. 
1286There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. 
1287To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others. 
1288Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it. 
1289Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest. 
1290The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. 
1291Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. 
1292Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied. 
1293A person's abilities are tested best when defending rather than attacking. 
1294The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection. 
1295When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. 
1296A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. 
1297I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. 
1298Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. 
1299Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. 
1300One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. 
1301I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. 
1302There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there. 
1303When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody. 
1304Who you are moment to moment is just a story. 
1305Happiness 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. 
1306It'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. 
1307Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity. 
1308If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. 
1309Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. 
1310The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. 
1311It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing. 
1312The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. 
1313Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. 
1314[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress. 
1315There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. 
1316Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. 
1317When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued. 
1318As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things. 
1319When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. 
1320Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing. 
1321Few 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. 
1322Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are. 
1323Who begins too much accomplishes little. 
1324With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. 
1325I am not young enough to know everything. 
1326Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. 
1327There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else. 
1328Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved. 
1329Part of being a Master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own. 
1330There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. 
1331If you believe everything you read, better not read. 
1332Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop. 
1333The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. 
1334There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. 
1335The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. 
1336Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians. 
1337In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath. 
1338Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. 
1339Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. 
1340Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. 
1341The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. 
1342You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. 
1343Everyone's a hero in their own way, in their own not that heroic way. 
1344Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. 
1345Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.' 
1346Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. 
1347You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. 
1348A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. 
1349Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. 
1350The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be. 
1351The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath. 
1352You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. 
1353Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? 
1354It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. 
1355Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch. 
1356I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better. 
1357The truth is rarely pure and never simple. 
1358There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money. 
1359A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. 
1360Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box. 
1361My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was. 
1362The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. 
1363If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. 
1364I 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. 
1365I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. 
1366Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. 
1367As 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. 
1368Instant gratification takes too long. 
1369Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. 
1370Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. 
1371An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. 
1372How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. 
1373All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. 
1374Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect. 
1375The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. 
1376One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul. 
1377The average person thinks he isn't. 
1378If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. 
1379I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. 
1380Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them. 
1381May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility. 
1382Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money. 
1383Remove every barrier you can to fandom. A fan will be an evangelist for your work. 
1384Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. 
1385Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. 
1386If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter. 
1387I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. 
1388We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. 
1389Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. 
1390One 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. 
1391The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. 
1392Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield. 
1393We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God?s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith. 
1394Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. 
1395A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. 
1396We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend. 
1397The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. 
1398Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design. 
1399Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. 
1400The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. 
1401Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. 
1402Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. 
1403It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with. 
1404The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. 
1405Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. 
1406Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man. 
1407Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand 
1408To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. 
1409I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. 
1410I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it. 
1411It is better to be quotable than to be honest. 
1412Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. 
1413Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy. 
1414I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? 
1415Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. 
1416Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. 
1417In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. 
1418What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile. 
1419Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed. 
1420Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. 
1421There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. 
1422Publishers are just middlemen. That's all. If artists could remember that more often, they'd save themselves a lot of aggrevation. 
1423The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. 
1424What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say? 
1425Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. 
1426Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. 
1427When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. 
1428The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget. 
1429I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system. 
1430The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket. 
1431Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.' 
1432Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. 
1433The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law. 
1434God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me. 
1435Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months. 
1436We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. 
1437The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. 
1438I am not young enough to know everything. 
1439The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. 
1440Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. 
1441When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. 
1442Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. 
1443The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. 
1444There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. 
1445Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. 
1446Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. 
1447The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. 
1448If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. 
1449When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. 
1450With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?' 
1451If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong. 
1452If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. 
1453You're never too old to become younger. 
1454I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. 
1455Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred. 
1456There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. 
1457To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything... 
1458When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. 
1459Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. 
1460Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. 
1461My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds. 
1462Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. 
1463If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work. 
1464To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. 
1465Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either. 
1466Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. 
1467A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members. 
1468You've got to take the bitter with the sour. 
1469Health food makes me sick. 
1470There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. 
1471In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves. 
1472That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. 
1473There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. 
1474Nothing ever goes away. 
1475In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. 
1476While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned. 
1477Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. 
1478If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. 
1479We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. 
1480If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. 
1481When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business. 
1482Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you. 
1483I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. 
1484It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. 
1485The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. 
1486The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. 
1487When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. 
1488Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. 
1489I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. 
1490The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver. 
1491Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. 
1492When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. 
1493Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. 
1494Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. 
1495It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. 
1496The computer is a moron. 
1497A lie told often enough becomes the truth. 
1498This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors. 
1499You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection. 
1500I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed. 
1501The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. 
1502Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb. 
1503Complain to one who can help you. 
1504The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. 
1505Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death. 
1506To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent. 
1507The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. 
1508Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. 
1509I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth." 
1510Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action. 
1511Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. 
1512If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. 
1513Never give advice unless asked. 
1514There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. 
1515The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before. 
1516I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. 
1517Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. 
1518Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. 
1519We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. 
1520Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. 
1521Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. 
1522Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it. 
1523The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. 
1524He talked with more claret than clarity. 
1525If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it. 
1526To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything... 
1527The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. 
1528A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself. 
1529Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. 
1530My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. 
1531I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. 
1532Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it. 
1533I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. 
1534It'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. 
1535There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. 
1536Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. 
1537You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. 
1538I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. 
1539If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. 
1540Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night. 
1541I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. 
1542War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist. 
1543Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love. 
1544We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. 
1545Food is an important part of a balanced diet. 
1546I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert. 
1547The future is much like the present, only longer. 
1548You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it. 
1549Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime. 
1550Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. 
1551Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of. 
1552Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. 
1553Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. 
1554In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. 
1555You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. 
1556You don't have to die in order to make a living. 
1557I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. 
1558I 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. 
1559The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. 
1560There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. 
1561To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. 
1562I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. 
1563My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. 
1564'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college. 
1565I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. 
1566Biography lends to death a new terror. 
1567I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back. 
1568My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared. 
1569Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. 
1570How my achievements mock me! 
1571An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. 
1572We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. 
1573Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. 
1574Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. 
1575Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills. 
1576A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. 
1577Silence is more musical than any song. 
1578When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light. 
1579I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.' 
1580It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. 
1581I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on. 
1582We 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. 
1583We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. 
1584One man's folly is another man's wife. 
1585Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few. 
1586Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. 
1587The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. 
1588Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. 
1589The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. 
1590There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating. 
1591If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. 
1592There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there. There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years ? block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand. 
1593It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. 
1594I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. 
1595The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. 
1596Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. 
1597I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. 
1598Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. 
1599The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel. 
1600Management is nothing more than motivating other people. 
1601By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. 
1602Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed. 
1603I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are. 
1604Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange. 
1605I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. 
1606Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. 
1607I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose. 
1608[Water is] the only drink for a wise man. 
1609I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth. 
1610The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. 
1611What if this weren't a hypothetical question? 
1612I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. 
1613The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. 
1614He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally. 
1615I want freedom for the full expression of my personality. 
1616Illusion is the first of all pleasures. 
1617Genius is of no country. 
1618There it was, hidden in alphabetical order. 
1619In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. 
1620He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." 
1621Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. 
1622To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone. 
1623Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. 
1624Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it. 
1625We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. 
1626Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. 
1627If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail. 
1628Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference. 
1629There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. 
1630I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor. 
1631Humility is no substitute for a good personality. 
1632What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too! 
1633Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. 
1634Whatever you are, be a good one. 
1635When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. 
1636Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight. 
1637A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. 
1638Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything. 
1639So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does. 
1640Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts. 
1641Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell. 
1642Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. 
1643An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it. 
1644Every man is the architect of his own fortune. 
1645We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves. 
1646Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away. 
1647Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. 
1648The only thing I like about rich people is their money. 
1649All great truths begin as blasphemies. 
1650He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit. 
1651For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others. 
1652Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. 
1653Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. 
1654Careful. We don't want to learn from this. 
1655An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible. 
1656Music has charms to soothe the savage breast  To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. 
1657You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more. 
1658You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious. 
1659All 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. 
1660One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. 
1661One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. 
1662Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home. 
1663Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. 
1664Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield. 
1665A 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. 
1666It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them. 
1667One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul. 
1668Man's main task is to give birth to himself. 
1669[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn?t boring. 
1670I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth. 
1671Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. 
1672He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit. 
1673I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. 
1674I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. 
1675Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you. 
1676In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.  
1677Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete. 
1678I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. 
1679A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. 
1680Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. 
1681Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. 
1682What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say? 
1683Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. 
1684Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. 
1685This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men. 
1686Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. 
1687I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. 
1688There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. 
1689That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. 
1690You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. 
1691Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve. 
1692If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place. 
1693Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. 
1694Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas. 
1695The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. 
1696He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes. 
1697Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. 
1698Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. 
1699The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. 
1700Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? 
1701Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good. 
1702The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. 
1703Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. 
1704A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. 
1705You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy. 
1706A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. 
1707Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there. 
1708Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. 
1709You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. 
1710Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. 
1711If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. 
1712Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language. 
1713Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. 
1714It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world. 
1715If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. 
1716Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. 
1717Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. 
1718If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think. 
1719I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. 
1720Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. 
1721If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. 
1722Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. 
1723Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. 
1724Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. 
1725You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. 
1726It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. 
1727All that counts in life is intention. 
1728The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. 
1729Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. 
1730Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. 
1731Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. 
1732Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. 
1733The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. 
1734Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger. 
1735The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. 
1736Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. 
1737The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. 
1738The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide. 
1739You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. 
1740Only the mediocre are always at their best. 
1741Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. 
1742If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? 
1743Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. 
1744I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. 
1745The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. 
1746The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. 
1747Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing. 
1748It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. 
1749We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. 
1750Man 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. 
1751Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. 
1752Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. 
1753Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. 
1754Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. 
1755Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. 
1756Facts are the enemy of truth. 
1757Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. 
1758The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. 
1759Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. 
1760I 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. 
1761There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. 
1762I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine. 
1763Let's assume that each person has an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different. To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses. 
1764The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. 
1765If you don't know to the second when a drunk's gonna vomit on you, you don't survive as a strip club bouncer. 
1766I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. 
1767In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt. 
1768Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money. 
1769I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. 
1770Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so. 
1771There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. 
1772In love, one and one are one. 
1773There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy. 
1774A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. 
1775Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. 
1776In terms of being late or not starting at all, then it's never too late. 
1777There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. 
1778Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel. 
1779It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. 
1780Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you. 
1781It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. 
1782Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible. 
1783In 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. 
1784We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them. 
1785Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. 
1786You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much. 
1787The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. 
1788The average person thinks he isn't. 
1789Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. 
1790Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. 
1791Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. 
1792You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy. 
1793Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. 
1794The future will be better tomorrow. 
1795If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. 
1796The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. 
1797Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. 
1798We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought. 
1799If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. 
1800Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. 
1801Good food ends with good talk. 
1802It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. 
1803Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. 
1804At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas. 
1805The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. 
1806If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments. 
1807The 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. 
1808To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. 
1809The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. 
1810Never answer a critic, unless he's right. 
1811Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. 
1812Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth. 
1813It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. 
1814The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. 
1815Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. 
1816In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do. 
1817Laughter is an instant vacation. 
1818The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. 
1819I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. 
1820You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions. 
1821Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. 
1822Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. 
1823One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. 
1824Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. 
1825In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright. 
1826You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists. 
1827A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind. 
1828If 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. 
1829Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression. 
1830Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. 
1831Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. 
1832Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. 
1833It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void. 
1834It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day. 
1835The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. 
1836None are so busy as the fool and knave. 
1837I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. 
1838I do not know which makes a man more conservative?to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. 
1839Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink. 
1840The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. 
1841Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them. 
1842Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at? 
1843Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move. 
1844He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes. 
1845Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. 
1846If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it. 
1847Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. 
1848We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. 
1849Go 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. 
1850You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. 
1851People find life entirely too time-consuming. 
1852If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.' 
1853Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. 
1854Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. 
1855I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself. 
1856Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. 
1857There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. 
1858It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. 
1859We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God?s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith. 
1860I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure. 
1861It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights. Yes we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes we can. 
1862It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. 
1863I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are. 
1864Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. 
1865The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane. 
1866You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. 
1867'Wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses. 
1868Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. 
1869Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. 
1870Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. 
1871Whatever you are, be a good one. 
1872You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you. 
1873The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. 
1874You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. 
1875Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. 
1876I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. 
1877The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes. 
1878It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. 
1879The 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. 
1880Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. 
1881Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. 
1882The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being. 
1883We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. 
1884The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket. 
1885The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. 
1886Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. 
1887I'm moving, but don't worry! [Someone once] told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay! 
1888I always like a good math solution to any love problem. 
1889Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. 
1890I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always. 
1891If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. 
1892If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. 
1893Be a fountain, not a drain. 
1894So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. 
1895She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what. 
1896The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. 
1897Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters. 
1898Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly. 
1899Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes. 
1900If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names. 
1901That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. 
1902Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. 
1903The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense. 
1904Outer space is no place for a person of breeding. 
1905Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. 
1906Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. 
1907God creates men, but they choose each other. 
1908The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it?s not about me. It?s about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you said?' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear. 
1909Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. 
1910We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. 
1911The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. 
1912Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise. 
1913But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself. 
1914People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. 
1915Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. 
1916A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. 
1917Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. 
1918Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?' 
1919Enquire not what boils in another's pot. 
1920Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. 
1921The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. 
1922You learn a lot about people when you play games with them. 
1923When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned. 
1924When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?' 
1925In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. 
1926For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. 
1927Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. 
1928The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. 
1929Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. 
1930Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. 
1931It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. 
1932[Spring is] when life's alive in everything. 
1933Vigorous writing is concise. 
1934Man is what he eats. 
1935Communism is like one big phone company. 
1936I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them. 
1937If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em. 
1938Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. 
1939A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. 
1940Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. 
1941I bought some batteries, but they weren't included. 
1942Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. 
1943As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something. 
1944We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves. 
1945Of those who say nothing, few are silent. 
1946The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. 
1947A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. 
1948I do not know which makes a man more conservative?to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. 
1949The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. 
1950If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. 
1951Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it. 
1952The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. 
1953[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. 
1954Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable. 
1955Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. 
1956We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it. 
1957A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. 
1958I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants. 
1959Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent. 
1960Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. 
1961Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle. 
1962The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. 
1963As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it. 
1964Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. 
1965Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. 
1966You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. 
1967I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. 
1968God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. 
1969A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. 
1970Among 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. 
1971If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport. 
1972My friend is one... who take me for what I am. 
1973The only thing I like about rich people is their money. 
1974Every time we remember to say "thank you," we experience nothing less than heaven on earth. 
1975Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure. 
1976Too much of a good thing is wonderful. 
1977Politics is applesauce. 
1978The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. 
1979Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly. 
1980The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. 
1981Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. 
1982Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. 
1983If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. 
1984To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action. 
1985If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. 
1986Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. 
1987Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture. 
1988One man's folly is another man's wife. 
1989Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples' back yards. 
1990Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary. 
1991I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. 
1992One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. 
1993If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. 
1994There is no silver bullet and frankly you probably don?t need one. It is far more important to be able to find the right kind of gun, be able to load the gun ? and perhaps most importantly, be able to figure out where the werewolf is. 
1995I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it. 
1996I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips. 
1997The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. 
1998Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. 
1999The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. 
2000All things are difficult before they are easy. 
2001In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. 
2002Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. 
2003Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. 
2004Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 
2005[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. 
2006It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. 
2007There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open. 
2008Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy. 
2009Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. 
2010Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy. 
2011The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. 
2012Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,  Beloved from pole to pole. 
2013Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. 
2014If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. 
2015Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. 
2016It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. 
2017Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home. 
2018Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. 
2019I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe. 
2020Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. 
2021Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it. 
2022He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical. 
2023Make your life a mission - not an intermission. 
2024It's about what YOU are going to do with the short time you have left on this earth. 
2025Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. 
2026One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. 
2027If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter. 
2028Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. 
2029If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite. 
2030Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. 
2031I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. 
2032It 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. 
2033Ideals 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. 
2034Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. 
2035It'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. 
2036If you don't know what to do, call the media and at least give the appearance of doing something. 
2037Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. 
2038We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. 
2039Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. 
2040A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. 
2041An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. 
2042Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. 
2043I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. 
2044This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out. 
2045I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. 
2046Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. 
2047There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most. 
2048The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. 
2049Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. 
2050Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. 
2051When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. 
2052If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter. 
2053I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that. 
2054You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate. 
2055A friend is a second self. 
2056Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child. 
2057Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. 
2058When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. 
2059I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. 
2060If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. 
2061The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. 
2062Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it. 
2063Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. 
2064Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. 
2065My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. 
2066If 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. 
2067It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward. 
2068When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared. 
2069There is no silver bullet and frankly you probably don?t need one. It is far more important to be able to find the right kind of gun, be able to load the gun ? and perhaps most importantly, be able to figure out where the werewolf is. 
2070Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. 
2071Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. 
2072Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. 
2073My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing. 
2074Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. 
2075Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. 
2076Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. 
2077You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart. 
2078The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. 
2079The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity. 
2080She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. 
2081Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. 
2082Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it. 
2083Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. 
2084Little by little, one travels far. 
2085The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. 
2086Flowers 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. 
2087That's the key to having it all: stop expecting it to look like what you thought it was going to look like. 
2088This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. 
2089Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. 
2090People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy. 
2091My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing. 
2092If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down. 
2093Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd. 
2094Do not speak of repulsive matters at table. 
2095Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. 
2096Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. 
2097An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. 
2098Men are born to succeed, not fail. 
2099A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. 
2100I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. 
2101It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. 
2102The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. 
2103When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. 
2104Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. 
2105Success only hurts the first time. 
2106Underpromise; overdeliver. 
2107We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. 
2108Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. 
2109People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. 
2110You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door. 
2111I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down. 
2112The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. 
2113Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully. 
2114Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. 
2115You don't have to die in order to make a living. 
2116A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. 
2117We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves. 
2118Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. 
2119The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. 
2120Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. 
2121Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. 
2122Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic! 
2123Anger as soon as fed is dead-  'Tis starving makes it fat. 
2124None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. 
2125In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. 
2126It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. 
2127The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. 
2128An optimist is the human personification of spring. 
2129A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. 
2130Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. 
2131I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. 
2132I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. 
2133Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves. 
2134The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. 
2135Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents. 
2136Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. 
2137Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. 
2138It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. 
2139Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism. 
2140Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal. 
2141The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. 
2142Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. 
2143And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now. 
2144I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. 
2145Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soulpower to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different. 
2146Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. 
2147The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. 
2148Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. 
2149Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture. 
2150What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? 
2151If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. 
2152How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. 
2153You create your opportunities by asking for them. 
2154It 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. 
2155Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all. 
2156Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again. 
2157Here'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. 
2158I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on. 
2159It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. 
2160Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper. 
2161There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things! 
2162Nothing endures but personal qualities. 
2163Invention is the mother of necessity. 
2164Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. 
2165My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential. 
2166I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name. 
2167I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. 
2168Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,  And toss them on the wheels of Chance. 
2169Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. 
2170Worries go down better with soup than without. 
2171Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy. 
2172When you get right down to it, what we all need is a place to go... A place where we can escape the noise of our lives and just relax. 
2173Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. 
2174Dance is the hidden language of the soul. 
2175The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. 
2176That's the key to having it all: stop expecting it to look like what you thought it was going to look like. 
2177You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. 
2178Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. 
2179Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst. 
2180I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words. 
2181Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase. 
2182I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them. 
2183This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them. 
2184As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. 
2185Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. 
2186What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. 
2187It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. 
2188My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. 
2189When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. 
2190People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt. 
2191If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had. 
2192I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. 
2193I 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. 
2194Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living. 
2195I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth." 
2196Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. 
2197A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off? 
2198Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. 
2199There is only one you... Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered! 
2200The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. 
2201Humor is also a way of saying something serious. 
2202Acting 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. 
2203Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. 
2204Adversity does teach who your real friends are. 
2205It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. 
2206All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. 
2207Vote early and vote often. 
2208I grow more intense as I age. 
2209Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved. 
2210All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it! 
2211Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong. 
2212Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.' 
2213I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be. 
2214One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. 
2215Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. 
2216I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. 
2217Age is no guarantee of maturity. 
2218Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them. 
2219If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? 
2220You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave. 
2221Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other. 
2222I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here. 
2223Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity. 
2224The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. 
2225The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. 
2226A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. 
2227Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse. 
2228Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. 
2229Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are. 
2230It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. 
2231Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. 
2232You always second guess yourself. Just think of all the time you'd save if you just trusted yourself. 
2233Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. 
2234If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. 
2235My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential. 
2236When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it. 
2237I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for. 
2238Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. 
2239It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are. 
2240[Television is] the triumph of machine over people. 
2241I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. 
2242The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you. 
2243For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? 
2244In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. 
2245If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. 
2246Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. 
2247'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds. 
2248Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. 
2249The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. 
2250Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. 
2251I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. 
2252In the end, everything is a gag. 
2253Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for. 
2254The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. 
2255You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last. 
2256Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. 
2257It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. 
2258Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. 
2259He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh. 
2260Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. 
2261Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining? 
2262One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. 
2263Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. 
2264The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. 
2265A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver. 
2266I row after health like a waterman... 
2267The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. 
2268Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. 
2269The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. 
2270One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. 
2271Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. 
2272They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. 
2273How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! 
2274Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you! 
2275Behind every great fortune there is a crime. 
2276Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do. 
2277Laughter is by definition healthy. 
2278Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. 
2279People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. 
2280We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. 
2281When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued. 
2282While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. 
2283Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. 
2284You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves. 
2285In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. 
2286I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. 
2287You can cover a great deal of country in books. 
2288He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. 
2289For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. 
2290Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. 
2291Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you. 
2292Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake. 
2293Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. 
2294I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there. 
2295Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. 
2296In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. 
2297Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. 
2298It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry. 
2299You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. 
2300Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. 
2301Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously. 
2302People will buy anything that is one to a customer. 
2303Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. 
2304The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. 
2305My work is a game, a very serious game. 
2306As I was walking up the stair  I met a man who wasn't there.  He wasn't there again today.  I wish, I wish he'd stay away. 
2307The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. 
2308The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. 
2309Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer. 
2310Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. 
2311When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose. 
2312We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. 
2313What happens when the future has come and gone? 
2314Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. 
2315While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned. 
2316My home is not a place, it is people. 
2317I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities. 
2318If little else, the brain is an educational toy. 
2319Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change. 
2320Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. 
2321I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. 
2322We know what we are, but know not what we may be. 
2323I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. 
2324I grow more intense as I age. 
2325The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. 
2326I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf. 
2327The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. 
2328We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. 
2329The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. 
2330The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others. 
2331It has all been very interesting. 
2332The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke. 
2333If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. 
2334The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. 
2335To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship. 
2336We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. 
2337The easiest thing in the world to be is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. 
2338Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins. 
2339Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. 
2340It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. 
2341There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. 
2342I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS. 
2343I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. 
2344They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness. 
2345I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. 
2346Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort. 
2347A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. 
2348Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger. 
2349And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle. 
2350Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. 
2351You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. 
2352Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. 
2353The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism. 
2354Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes. 
2355The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. 
2356Good food ends with good talk. 
2357You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. 
2358Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. 
2359Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. 
2360Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. 
2361A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. 
2362Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. 
2363Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. 
2364Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. 
2365The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. 
2366The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. 
2367The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off. 
2368Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back. 
2369Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. 
2370If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. 
2371The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense. 
2372I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. 
2373Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. 
2374Mistakes are the portals of discovery. 
2375I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. 
2376To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success. 
2377Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go. 
2378When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. 
2379Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. 
2380Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. 
2381Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse. 
2382It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. 
2383The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended. 
2384People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside. 
2385My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers. 
2386The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good. 
2387Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are. 
2388The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten. 
2389They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm. 
2390For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. 
2391One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. 
2392What may be done at any time will be done at no time. 
2393You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. 
2394The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing. 
2395The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. 
2396We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration. 
2397The only joy in the world is to begin. 
2398Books...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. 
2399When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. 
2400Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. 
2401What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. 
2402It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister. 
2403Life is something that everyone should try at least once. 
2404My Karma ran over your dogma. 
2405He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace. 
2406You 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. 
2407Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. 
2408The customer doesn't expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong. 
2409My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. 
2410The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person. 
2411Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. 
2412Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. 
2413Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far. 
2414One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others. 
2415None are so busy as the fool and knave. 
2416You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. 
2417Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation. 
2418Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. 
2419To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. 
2420If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. 
2421The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. 
2422As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. 
2423Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. 
2424Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it. 
2425Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. 
2426There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. 
2427The important thing is not to stop questioning. 
2428Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. 
2429Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? 
2430If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? 
2431The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. 
2432To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. 
2433A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. 
2434Never judge a book by its movie. 
2435Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished. 
2436You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. 
2437Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. 
2438Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. 
2439The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent. 
2440Aspiring to a small business that does what it does very well is a noble pursuit. 
2441Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. 
2442He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. 
2443If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. 
2444Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else. 
2445It's kind of fun to do the impossible. 
2446To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. 
2447Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. 
2448When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing? 
2449Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism. For the record, it?s my least favorite quality. It doesn?t lead anywhere. 
2450You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are. 
2451Don'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. 
2452Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality. 
2453I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them. 
2454Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. 
2455Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. 
2456The unspoken word never does harm. 
2457Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. 
2458The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. 
2459Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. 
2460A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. 
2461I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. 
2462Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. 
2463Courage is fear that has said its prayers. 
2464One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. 
2465It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds. 
2466A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. 
2467You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? 
2468Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. 
2469There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life. 
2470You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. 
2471Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. 
2472Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. 
2473Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. 
2474Ninety percent of everything is crap. 
2475It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. 
2476A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. 
2477It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families. 
2478All the world's a cage. 
2479It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. 
2480A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. 
2481If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. 
2482If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. 
2483Music has charms to soothe the savage breast  To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. 
2484The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. 
2485Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. 
2486Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. 
2487A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. 
2488Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose. 
2489Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. 
2490Anything you fully do is an alone journey. 
2491I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. 
2492A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. 
2493There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. 
2494I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it. 
2495Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help. 
2496Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up. 
2497It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. 
2498You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself. 
2499The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. 
2500Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. 
2501Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move. 
2502Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man. 
2503Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. 
2504The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. 
2505Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly. 
2506Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,  Beloved from pole to pole. 
2507What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? 
2508I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. 
2509Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. 
2510I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself. 
2511Little by little, one travels far. 
2512Change your thoughts and you change your world. 
2513We are all human, and caring about the way something looks and feels does not mean we're superficial--it means we're human. We don't need to exploit sex to recognize that a certain amount of sexiness is both pleasurable and natural. 
2514When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing? 
2515O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. 
2516It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. 
2517Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. 
2518It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. 
2519You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. 
2520My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself... 
2521What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. 
2522Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. 
2523Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. 
2524Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are. 
2525It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. 
2526Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. 
2527Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment. 
2528The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten. 
2529I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. 
2530If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. 
2531The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. 
2532I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. 
2533True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self. 
2534Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. 
2535We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming. 
2536Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. 
2537I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time. 
2538You'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. 
2539Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. 
2540Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. 
2541Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. 
2542The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek. 
2543I shall not pretend that I do not prefer to have people adore me rather than revile me, but I have always found that it was far easier for me to suffer the disapprobation of others than to amend my behaviour in order to find favour with them. 
2544Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning. 
2545Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. 
2546You always pass failure on the way to success. 
2547I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. 
2548The ancestor of every action is a thought. 
2549A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. 
2550The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. 
2551On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. 
2552There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? 
2553Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. 
2554To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. 
2555The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past. 
2556If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. 
2557If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. 
2558I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. 
2559That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. 
2560Fall seven times, stand up eight. 
2561Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. 
2562When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it. 
2563I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. 
2564I felt like poisoning a monk. 
2565Resolve 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. 
2566The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you. 
2567You don?t need to win every medal to be successful. 
2568Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul. 
2569He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it. 
2570When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. 
2571Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. 
2572I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race. 
2573Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. 
2574By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. 
2575The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. 
2576He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. 
2577One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best. 
2578Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. 
2579If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. 
2580Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 
2581Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. 
2582His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. 
2583I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. 
2584Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. 
2585A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else. 
2586Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. 
2587The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future. 
2588The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. 
2589The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. 
2590The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down. 
2591Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. 
2592'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college. 
2593Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt. 
2594The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. 
2595The gods too are fond of a joke. 
2596I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. 
2597A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. 
2598A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. 
2599I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. 
2600If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. 
2601A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. 
2602I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. 
2603When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable. 
2604Ever heard Victoria's REAL secret? Too much support hurts. 
2605A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. 
2606Every day holds the possibility of a miracle. 
2607I am interested in the homeless, but they're a symptom. You're treating a symptom and the disease rages on and consumes the human race. I'm talking about an overhaul of the system: putting power in different hands. 
2608Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs? 
2609Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. 
2610I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. 
2611The 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. 
2612The 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. 
2613Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. 
2614But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. 
2615It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. 
2616The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure. 
2617The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. 
2618Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. 
2619If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. 
2620She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel. 
2621Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. 
2622A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving. 
2623I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. 
2624Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl. 
2625It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. 
2626No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are. 
2627I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. 
2628To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together. 
2629I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. 
2630Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. 
2631The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. 
2632To want to be what one can be is purpose in life. 
2633Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. 
2634Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. 
2635As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue. 
2636Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.) 
2637Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. 
2638Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. 
2639It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. 
2640Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high. 
2641Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us. 
2642Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished. 
2643An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. 
2644America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. 
2645Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. 
2646Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. 
2647Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully. 
2648In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. 
2649It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. 
2650The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense. 
2651The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. 
2652The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. 
2653I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success. 
2654In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath. 
2655I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. 
2656To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead. 
2657The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for. 
2658No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast. 
2659Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't. 
2660We are who people think we are. 
2661Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words. 
2662Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it. 
2663It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. 
2664If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. 
2665Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are. 
2666We're actors - we're the opposite of people. 
2667If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people. 
2668Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. 
2669Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. 
2670Only sick music makes money today. 
2671The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. 
2672There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. 
2673I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. 
2674You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. 
2675So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause. 
2676Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. 
2677Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. 
2678Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story. 
2679Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete. 
2680A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself. 
2681While there's life, there's hope. 
2682There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters. 
2683Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair. 
2684No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. 
2685Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. 
2686There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.' 
2687I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died. 
2688A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. 
2689The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. 
2690Goodness is the only investment that never fails. 
2691When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be. 
2692Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people. 
2693How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it. 
2694The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. 
2695Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. 
2696It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions. 
2697If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. 
2698We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. 
2699Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. 
2700When you're a team of one, you're always captain. 
2701In life we don?t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection. 
2702There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness. 
2703The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. 
2704Cocooned inside our private dramas we often don?t realize life is rolling by us like it should. 
2705Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. 
2706All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. 
2707The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said. 
2708If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life. 
2709Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. 
2710Deeds, not words shall speak me. 
2711Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. 
2712Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. 
2713The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them. 
2714Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again. 
2715You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another. 
2716The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. 
2717An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves. 
2718War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. 
2719Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. 
2720The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. 
2721In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. 
2722Too much of a good thing is wonderful. 
2723Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness? 
2724Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. 
2725If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. 
2726Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. 
2727Who begins too much accomplishes little. 
2728One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. 
2729It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes. 
2730Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. 
2731Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible. 
2732Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's. 
2733Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. 
2734Getting caught is the mother of invention. 
2735If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. 
2736There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere. 
2737Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there. 
2738The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. 
2739Personally I have struggled massively with the dilemma of talent vs desire. Choosing desire may not always be the easiest thing to do. It may seem a waste to leave those natural talents behind and strike out in a new direction. But at least you?ll feel alive. 
2740How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality. 
2741Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. 
2742When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. 
2743The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. 
2744One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. 
2745There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. 
2746Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. 
2747Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. 
2748The 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! 
2749Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. 
2750Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. 
2751Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. 
2752When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously. 
2753I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name. 
2754Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. 
2755You have to find a way of working that makes it dead easy to take full advantage of your inspired moments. They never hit at a convenient time, nor do they last long. 
2756The covers of this book are too far apart. 
2757Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all. 
2758Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist. 
2759Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. 
2760By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it. 
2761Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. 
2762Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't. 
2763Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still. 
2764Enquire not what boils in another's pot. 
2765People fail forward to success. 
2766It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends. 
2767The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. 
2768If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door. 
2769Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. 
2770Don'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. 
2771Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own. 
2772One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. 
2773All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown. 
2774The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver. 
2775The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. 
2776You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed. 
2777If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like. 
2778When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued. 
2779There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. 
2780Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first. 
2781Eat 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. 
2782It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. 
2783Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. 
2784A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp. 
2785Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. 
2786Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. 
2787Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. 
2788Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands. 
2789The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong. 
2790No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. 
2791[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. 
2792But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. 
2793Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. 
2794Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him. 
2795It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. 
2796A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. 
2797When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. 
2798The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last. 
2799A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. 
2800Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. 
2801Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. 
2802The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer. 
2803All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership. 
2804Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. 
2805Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others. 
2806If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate. 
2807Man is what he eats. 
2808In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it. 
2809Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. 
2810No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. 
2811Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. 
2812Before 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. 
2813Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. 
2814Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. 
2815Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. 
2816If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport. 
2817Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?' 
2818Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. 
2819A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else. 
2820It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy. 
2821Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose. 
2822Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. 
2823Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. 
2824We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. 
2825Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful. 
2826I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from. 
2827Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world. 
2828I felt like poisoning a monk. 
2829It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. 
2830Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. 
2831Good men must be affectionate men. 
2832In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death. 
2833We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. 
2834It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. 
2835The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. 
2836Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. 
2837It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. 
2838We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it. 
2839There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.' 
2840To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all. 
2841Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. 
2842The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. 
2843When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire. 
2844The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. 
2845The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. 
2846There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. 
2847The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. 
2848You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. 
2849There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. 
2850Part of being a Master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own. 
2851Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. 
2852A poem is never finished, only abandoned. 
2853Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. 
2854Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. 
2855I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something. 
2856He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh. 
2857The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. 
2858I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. 
2859I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't. 
2860Be neither too remote nor too familiar. 
2861The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.  
2862It never hurts to ask. Unless you ask for hurt. 
2863The only paradise is paradise lost. 
2864Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear. 
2865If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? 
2866There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. 
2867The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it. 
2868Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake. 
2869Use soft words and hard arguments. 
2870Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure. 
2871You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature. 
2872Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will. 
2873Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. 
2874Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. 
2875In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. 
2876There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. 
2877Actions lie louder than words. 
2878There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. 
2879There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. 
2880Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair. 
2881Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. 
2882To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. 
2883Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. 
2884When 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. 
2885Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. 
2886The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. 
2887Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself. 
2888Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. 
2889Don't look for more honor than your learning merits. 
2890Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them. 
2891The big thieves hang the little ones. 
2892By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. 
2893Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. 
2894One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it. 
2895A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. 
2896The report of my death was an exaggeration. 
2897Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age. 
2898Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical. 
2899He who would leap high must take a long run. 
2900Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. 
2901Fish and visitors smell in three days. 
2902A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. 
2903Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. 
2904One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. 
2905Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple. 
2906We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration. 
2907If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure. 
2908Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away. 
2909Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie. 
2910There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. 
2911I dream, therefore I become. 
2912We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win. 
2913Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. 
2914Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. 
2915Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. 
2916Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. 
2917The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment. 
2918Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. 
2919He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. 
2920Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. 
2921You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time. 
2922Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. 
2923Isn't everyone a part of everyone else? 
2924A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. 
2925The graveyards are full of indispensable men. 
2926Some things have to be believed to be seen. 
2927The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. 
2928I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. 
2929Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground. 
2930It's all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end. 
2931Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. 
2932There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. 
2933Wear the old coat and buy the new book. 
2934To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. 
2935It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. 
2936I?m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known. 
2937A friend is a second self. 
2938Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner. 
2939There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime. 
2940It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. 
2941Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. 
2942I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body. 
2943Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known. 
2944Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk. 
2945It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space. 
2946What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?? 
2947You must lose a fly to catch a trout. 
2948Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. 
2949A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. 
2950The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment. 
2951Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. 
2952The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth. 
2953Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast. 
2954No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. 
2955At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. 
2956My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. 
2957A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. 
2958The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. 
2959Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. 
2960If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry. 
2961Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. 
2962I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back. 
2963The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. 
2964As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around. 
2965The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. 
2966The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it. 
2967'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds. 
2968Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. 
2969The family is the country of the heart. 
2970If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. 
2971Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation. 
2972The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. 
2973The days of the digital watch are numbered. 
2974The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. 
2975Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. 
2976The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. 
2977He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. 
2978Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. 
2979I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. 
2980Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. 
2981The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. 
2982I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere. 
2983I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. 
2984Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. 
2985The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. 
2986True 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. 
2987Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you. 
2988You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering. 
2989I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. 
2990The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. 
2991When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure. 
2992Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. 
2993The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. 
2994Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. 
2995Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. 
2996If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance. 
2997Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. 
2998It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. 
2999I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. 
3000Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. 
3001Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. 
3002Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. 
3003Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. 
3004You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. 
3005Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad. 
3006Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. 
3007The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. 
3008Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. 
3009Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. 
3010Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. 
3011What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. 
3012If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter. 
3013You 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. 
3014All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. 
3015Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. 
3016It's noble to want to confess, but if the results are just damage and pain, that's not noble. It's selfish. 
3017Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. 
3018There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame. 
3019I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. 
3020In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. 
3021An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. 
3022Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. 
3023Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record. 
3024When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. 
3025Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. 
3026The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. 
3027We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. 
3028Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. 
3029Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. 
3030Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path. 
3031Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. 
3032Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. 
3033History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. 
3034Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. 
3035We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. 
3036If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way. 
3037A minute's success pays the failure of years. 
3038When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision. 
3039Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. 
3040Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. 
3041Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. 
3042The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. 
3043It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. 
3044They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze.  They should photograph me through linoleum. 
3045Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. 
3046I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. 
3047When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. 
3048If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. 
3049If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. 
3050Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. 
3051When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with. 
3052The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. 
3053I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. 
3054The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. 
3055Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice. 
3056Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. 
3057It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability. 
3058Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. 
3059Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. 
3060Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. 
3061Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. 
3062There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. 
3063The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. 
3064Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. 
3065I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. 
3066I feel like a tiny bird with a big song! 
3067As 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. 
3068Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. 
3069Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in. 
3070The 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. 
3071After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar. 
3072Wear the old coat and buy the new book. 
3073I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. 
3074I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. 
3075Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. 
3076Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? 
3077Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. 
3078There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. 
3079The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. 
3080I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.' 
3081Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. 
3082Life itself is a quotation. 
3083Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult. 
3084Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night. 
3085A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats. 
3086Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. 
3087Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital. 
3088Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known. 
3089Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes. 
3090When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time. 
3091The shortest route to getting things done is just do it. 
3092Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. 
3093Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. 
3094You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. 
3095Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. 
3096Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong. 
3097Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them. 
3098A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. 
3099Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper. 
3100The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.