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If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

I prefer someone who burns the flag, and wraps themselves up in the constitution over someone who burns the constitution and wraps themselves up in the flag.

In a relationship, you need somebody whos going to call you out, not somebody whos going to let everything slide. You need somebody who doesnt want to live without you, but can. Not somebody that is dependent, but somebody who is stronger with you. A relationship is two people, not one.

The hours that make us happy make us wise.

Don't be afraid your life will end. Be afraid that it will never begin.

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

It is better to play than do nothing.

Don't expect the puppets of your mind to become the people of your story. If they are not realities in your own mind, there is no mysterious alchemy in ink and paper that will turn wooden figures into flesh and blood.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

There are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop — H2O. The reader will get it.

Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.