Miscellaneous Quotes

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude, but their attitude, that will determine their altitude.

You do what you are...You�re born with a gift. If not that, then you get good at something along the way. And what you�re good at. you don�t take for granted.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Things are more like they are today than they have ever been before.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

It 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.

It 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.

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

It ain't braggin' if you can back it up.

Fantasy is a necessary ingrediant in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Everything you want also wants you.

There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Cliches are made because they're true.

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

We're all on the same roller coaster, just in different seats.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

All splendid things are rare.

Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

A stream cannot rise larger than its source.

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led diffcult lives and led them well.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

Why are people's "deepest desires" always so shallow?

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a want and a grief,
But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word reality in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

What you cannot enforce, do not command.

What you cannot enforce, do not command.

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

Pulses and impulses both come from the heart.

The heart has its reasons, of which the mind knows nothing.

Dogs look up to you. Cats look down on you. Pigs treat you like equals.

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.

The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Home is where you come when you run out of places.

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Every exit is an entry somewhere.

We all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men 'after our own heart.' Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread. The little pockets of early Chrstians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of 'the bretheren' and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society around them. But a circle of criminals, cranks, or perverts survives in just the same way; by becoming deaf to the opinion of the outer world, by discounting it as the chatter of outsiders who 'don't understand,' of the 'conventional,' the 'bourgeois,' the 'Establishment,' of prigs, prudes, and humbugs.

Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.

I figure wherever I am, that's the place to be.

Every act and event is the inevitable result of prior acts and events and is independent of human will.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

I don't like to share my personal life...it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Without losers, where would the winners be?

An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, <b>always</b>.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake -- which I also keep handy.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow-worm.

Any 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.

Gaze long into the abyss, and the abyss gazes into you.

It is not what you look at, but what you see.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as [Gandhi] ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.

With ignorance and arrogance, success is assured.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms. The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

I went out to the country so i could examine the simple things in life.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be, not what you nag them to be.

Everything done in weakness fails. Moral: Do nothing.

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

Sometimes the majority just means all the idiots are on the same side.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

What we humans are is really a remarkable thing. How can you doubt that we will survive and mature? There may be a lot of wisdom in the old statement about looking on the world lovingly. If we can, perhaps the world will have time to resolve itself.

Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.

The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

Why, you can take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears.

As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Man was made for action, and to promote by the exertion of his faculties such changes in the external circumstances both of himself and others, as may seem most favourable to the happiness of all.

Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement. The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.

Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.

Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

I'm so fast that, last night, I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

As the circle of light increases, so does the circumference of darkness around it.

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

Any fool can make a rule.

Plato was a bore.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Admiration. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

The fruit that can fall without shaking, indeed is too mellow for me.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.

In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die, and the choices that we make are ultimately our responsibility.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.

I don't always know what I'm talking about but I know I'm right.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war. Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man�s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.

A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

Pain is just weakness leaving the body.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

One swallow does not make a summer.

Speed provides the one great modern pleasure.

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' narrow chinks of his cavern.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Boldness be my friend.

Everyone has talent; what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been, and there you long to return.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

You know what the fellow said: In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love--they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

The most depraved type of being is that without purpose.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

Man's nature is not always to advance; it has its advances and retreats.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.

When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

With the sleep of dreams comes nightmares.

The worst thing that could happen to anybody, would be to not be used for anything by anybody.

This world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.

The sports page records people's accomplishments; The front page nothing but their failures.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Wal-Mart, what's that? Do they, like, make walls there?

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

Funny how the new things are the old things.

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

No human thing is of serious importance.

Traffic is like a bad dog. It isn't important to look both ways when crossing the street. It's more important to not show fear.

How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.

When the human race has once acquired a supersitition nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada.

We are all victims of mythology in one way or another. We are the inheritors, and many times the propogators, of a desire to believe what we want to believe, regardless of whether or not it is true.

Heaven have mercy on us all--Presbyterians and Pagans alike--for we are all dreadfully cracked about the head and desperately in need of mending.

.I had to face the horrible truth: The antitobacco people are lying. Smoking really is cool. And I'm less cool for not doing it.

Criticism is nothing more than other people's opinion.

Goldie and I did have a car stolen right out of our yard. It took us three days to notice.

If you are gonna kick society in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

Rhis is to be asserted in general of men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed, are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children...when the need is far distant; but when it approaches, they will turn against you.

You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too.

No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face -- forever.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.

I wake each morning torn between the desire to improve the world and the desire to enjoy it. It makes it hard to plan the day.

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weeaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Round numbers are always false.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

There are two ways of spreading light -- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Some men see things as they are and say why - I dream things that never were and say why not.

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Always remember, others may hate you- but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.

I can resist everything except temptation.

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

Our intention creates our reality.

I think fame is a really complicated thing. It can be a great challenge to handle the difficult parts of it and strengthen your character so you don't get affected in a negative way by it. And I'm scared and excited and hesitant and anxious. I'm conflicted about it, truly.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?

The more sensitive you are, the more likely you are to be brutalized, develop scabs and never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything because you always feel too much.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

To err is human; to forgive is divine.

I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

To err is human - but it feels divine.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Never murder a man who is committing suicide.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?

When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.

A lot of places can be the wrong place at the wrong time.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle. If you do not fight, life will never be won.

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiased opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

There are no solutions...there are only trade-offs.

A reasonable man adapts himself to his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

The destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits--not animals.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him, you will always remember.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

If you�ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Abuse, if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

The only paradise is paradise lost.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms, one would not part.

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude.

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.'

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

A kiss may ruin a human life.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, from all let this be heard. Some does it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

All glory is fleeting.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Errors of haste are seldom committed singly. The first time a man always does too much. And precisely on that account he commits a second error, and then he does too little.

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Cast off the shackles of this modern oppression and take back what is rightfully yours, because as William Shakespeare never wrote, 'Life is but a bullring, and we are but matadors trying to dodge all the horns.'

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.

Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.