The curve is more powerful than the sword.

	Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
	
	Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle.
	The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himeslf with a most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safetly be trusted to no council and senate whatever and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
	Some people use language to express thought some to conceal thought and others instead of thought.

	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.
	The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
	If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.
	God whispers to us in our pleasures speaks in our conscience but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
	Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
	What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet isn't much better than tedious disease.
	Well the telling of jokes is an art of its own and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
	Reality is merely an illusion albeit a very persistent one.
	Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.
	Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
	Strength of mind is exercise not rest.

	In wartime truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
	All men are not homeless but some men are home less than others.
	The price of greatness is responsibility.
	I think that everyone should get married at least once so you can see what a silly outdated institution it is.
	An event has happened upon which it is difficult to speak and impossible to be silent.
	The reason I love my dog so much is because when I come home he's the only one in the world who treats me like I'm The Beatles.
	Round numbers are always false.
	Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it.
	If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies.
	Lead follow or get out of the way.

	Time has been transformed and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
	As a matter of principle I never attend the first annual anything.
	I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
	Reality is merely an illusion albeit a very persistent one.
	I am not judged by the number of times I fail but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.
	Why are people's ''deepest desires'' always so shallow?.
	The movies that are the easiest to make are the hardest to watch.
	Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work a company work a society work a civilization work.
	They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
	The miracle is not that we do this work but that we are happy to do it.
	Your faith is what you believe not what you know.

	What makes us men is that we can think logically. What makes us human is that we sometimes choose not to.
	Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
	They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
	Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.
	The beginning is the most important part of the work.

	
	Cowardice asks the question 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question 'Is it popular?' But conscience asks the question 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.
	Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
	An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.
	The 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.
	If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred.
	There are no seeing eye cats of course because the sole function of cats in the Great Chain of Life is to cause harm to human beings.
	There is but one straight course and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.
	An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
	Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.
	We should not criticise those who trip by taking a more difficult than usual step.
	Friends have all things in common.

	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.
	I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
	I just finished my first book. Pretty soon I'm gonna read another.
	Say what you will about the Ten Commandments you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
	The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
	I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
	I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
	The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
	Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
	Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.
	Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

	The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
	Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
	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.
	Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
	I never cared but for one thing and that is simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment this day doing the things God requires of my hands and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come.
	Friendship like the immortality of the soul is too good to be believed. When friendships are real they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.
	Alexander Caesar Charlemagne and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.
	When we played softball I'd steal second base feel guilty and go back.


	In order to succeed your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
	Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don’t write about Man write about 'a' man.
	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.
	My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
	The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
	Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
	Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what without this book he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
	I wish I had a kryptonite cross because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.
	Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

	We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
	You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve' said Aslan. 'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.'
	If ever time should come when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
	Advertising is the life of trade.
	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.
	In the life of a man his time is but a moment...his sense a dim rushlight. All that is body is as coursing waters...all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.
	To be absolutely certain about something one must know everything or nothing about it.
	We can allow satellites planets suns universe nay whole systems of universe[s] to be governed by laws but the smallest insect we wish to be created at once by special act.
	Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies but let wasps and hornets break through.
	If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas then each of us will have two ideas.
	Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.


	Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life as one can in any likelihood pursue.
	Only Americans can hurt America.
	There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
	If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality then there is no greater nobler more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking...the alleged short-cut to knowledge which is faith is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.
	Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
	Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have: Cincinnati sounds worse.
	How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?.
	Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

	By a curious confusion many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
	One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life at the drop of a hat you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.
	Art calls for complete mastery of techniques developed by reflection within the soul.
	Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.
	A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
	My formula for success is rise early work late and strike oil.
	The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get.
	Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
	Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear it makes you more alert like a deer coming across the lawn.
	Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
	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.
	When the only tool you own is a hammer every problem begins to resemble a nail.
	No human relation gives one possession in another...every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship and in love the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
	The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
	What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not. But if you go on it's knowing you carry your scars with you.
	Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
	A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.


	Philosophers for the most part are constitutionally timid and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable at least in its main outlines.
	Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire it wafts across the electrified borders.
	The gods too are fond of a joke.
	Platitudes? Yes there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
	To be a leader means to be able to move masses.
	I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the Presidency.
	There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
	Work is something you can count on a trusted lifelong friend who never deserts you.
	It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet like the asthmatic struggling for breath so the lover must struggle for words.
	Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.


	A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
	Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth wisdom and you will have everything.
	I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
	That woman speaks eighteen languages and she can't say 'no' in any one of them.
	America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
	The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.
	Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
	The buck stops here.

	Lost time is never found again.
	On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
	When they tell me I'm too old to do something I attempt it immediately.
	It is not from the benevolence of the butcher the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.
	Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense.
	Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
	If you can't imitate him don't copy him.


	The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
	Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
	I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable too to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
	A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relation. Then you can not only be nothing you can do nothing too.
	The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
	And the Grinch with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow stood puzzling and puzzling how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas he thought doesn't come from a store? What if Christmas perhaps means a little bit more?.
	Less disappointing than life great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
	Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
	Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
	Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love love love that is the soul of genius.
	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.
	True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we.
	understand about life ourselves and the world around us.

	Our passions are not too strong they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
	Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
	What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday and our present thoughts build our life tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind.
	God gave us two ends. One to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use; head you win tail you lose.
	A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
	So convienent a thing it is to be a reasonable creature since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
	The Internet: Transforming Society and Shaping the Future Through Chat.
	Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God.


	There are no rules for good photographs there are only good photographs.
	It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
	He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he would like to have.
	All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.
	Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
	Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
	Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense.
	Ah yes divorce...from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
	Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.


	A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
	Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose directly or indirectly.
	I would rather try to persuade a man to go along because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him he will stay just as long as he is scared and then he is gone.
	Keep your fears to yourself but share your inspiration with others.
	I realise that I'm making gender-based generalizations here but my feeling is that if God did not want us to make gender-based generalizations She would not have given us genders.
	If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed clothed given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
	Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing you'll like yourself you'll have inner peace. And if you have that along with physical health you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
	The truth is of course that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion but on the contrary of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things are forbidden.
	In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
	All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.
	Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.
	We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going and then go with the drove.
	A yawn is a silent shout.

	Like as the waves make towards.
	the pebbl'd shore so do our minutes hasten to their end.
	The MPAA rates this PG-13. It is too vulgar for anyone under 13 and too dumb for anyone over 13.
	What a man's mind can create man's character can control.
	Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler.
	Of course the people dont want war...that is understood. But voice or no voice the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
	There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
	We're not all alike but we can all like each other.
	Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good God dispenses it even to the wicked.
	If you’ve got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
	I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough it loses all of its meaning.
	A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
	If one knows exactly what is going to be done why do it?.
	You're entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts.
	The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
	More than kisses letters mingle souls.


	If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one go ahead get married.
	Facts are stubborn but statistics are more pliable.
	If you look back on the '60s and think there was more good than harm you're probably a Democrat. If you think there was more harm than good you're probably a Republican.
	A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
	If you would be loved love and be lovable.
	We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
	Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
	As President I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.
	I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
	The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought.
	I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
	If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off I know that is poetry.
	Sometimes the majority just means all the idiots are on the same side.


	In the past decade or so the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually when enough things in the home are broken they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.
	A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person.
	Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
	The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
	Without question the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
	Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
	The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires.
	It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition to blaspheme to outrage good taste to corrupt the youthful mind and generally to scandalize one's uncles.
	The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
	We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.


	No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?.
	How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
	We can allow satellites planets suns universe nay whole systems of universe[s] to be governed by laws but the smallest insect we wish to be created at once by special act.
	If freedom is short of weapons we must compensate with willpower.
	Can't live with 'em. Can't legally torture them to death.
	The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
	Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.
	Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
	Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work a company work a society work a civilization work.
	Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
	Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
	One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life at the drop of a hat you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.
	If you can't accept losing you can't win.
	We have really everything in common with America nowadays except of course language.
	You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise they won't come to yours.
	One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
	The reason I love my dog so much is because when I come home he's the only one in the world who treats me like I'm The Beatles.
	In crises the most daring course is often safest.


	One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
	A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership of getting along with people of getting things done.
	It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
	Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
	It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body with the ignorances of the mind with the passions of the body with the seditions of the city with the discords of families.
	No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself personally it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
	Platitudes? Yes there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
	An eye for an eye and soon the whole world is blind.
	''I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton who did a great job.
	As for a future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
	I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
	I have learned silence from the talkative tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind.
	Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good lucky feeling.
	Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
	No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.


	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
	One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
	All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.
	Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.
	I'm not upset about my divorce. I'm only upset I'm not a widow.
	Talking about golf is always boring. (Playing golf can be interesting but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.)
	It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million guy sperm cells each one wriggling in its own direction totally confident it knows where it is going to locate a female egg despite the fact that the egg is relative to them the size of Wisconsin.
	Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
	If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items just carry those twenty percent.
	Art is a collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better.
	When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
	Keep hope alive!.
	Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
	When they tell me I'm too old to do something I attempt it immediately.
	Whenever someone asks me to define love I usually think for a minute then I spin around and pin the guy's arm behind his back. NOW who's asking the questions?.

	The purpose of all wars is peace.
	One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child.
	The only paradise is paradise lost.
	Women need a reason to have sex -- men just need a place.
	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.
	He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
	Luck is not chance it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
	If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed clothed given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
	Thinking is the hardest work there is which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.
	A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.
	What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that's another matter altogether.
	Whoso loves believes the impossible.

	I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.
	A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people in one sense know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
	In giving a man receives more than he gives and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
	I am opposed to millionaires but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
	Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
	Marriage is a wonderful institution but who would want to live in an institution?.
	I am always doing that which I can not do in order that I may learn how to do it.
	It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.


	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.
	Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
	War - an act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy to accomplish our will.
	If only for the sake of elegance I try to remain morally pure.
	Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
	Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
	In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.
	Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
	Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.

	I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
	Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
	The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
	The only way to have a friend is to be one.

	Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
	To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.
	America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth the same color the same texture the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches many pieces many colors many sizes all woven and held together by a common thread.
	I'm at an age where I think more about food than sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.
	How many observe Christ's birthday! How few his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
	Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
	I think and think for months and years ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
	We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

	If I have ever made any valuable discoveries it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
	Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters the former makes its exit.
	It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
	Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress Gandhi is inescapable. He lived thought and acted inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk.
	The ACLU is always yakking about the Constitution and most of us are getting mighty tired of it. I mean if the Constitution is so great how come it was amended so many times? Huh?.
	When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

	Never confuse motion with action.
	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.
	Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.
	No matter what they're charging to get in it's worth more to get out.
	You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
	What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing that resistance is overcome.
	Never murder a man who is committing suicide.

	This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
	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.'
	The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
	It is the unconquerable nature of man and not the nature of the weapon he uses that ensures victory.
	We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice ambition revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
	Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.


	The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the oposite direction.
	When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
	I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
	I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
	The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
	Contentment is natural wealth luxury is artificial poverty.
	I didn't attend the funeral but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
	A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love the hope of eternal happiness.
	It's not about finding the right man it's about being the right woman.
	Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.
	Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

	Behind every successful man is a woman behind her is his wife.
	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.
	You are young my son and as the years go by time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
	Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
	Anyone who says that they can contemplate quantum mechanics without becoming dizzy has not understood the concept in the least.
	What sunshine is to flowers smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway the good they do is inconceivable.
	I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
	It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.


	I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.
	Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper pencils and erasers...and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers.
	The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
	Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear if we would only sit down and keep still.
	Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
	Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude.
	When you get right down to it the Safety Lecture is a silly idea. I mean if the passengers really thought the plane was going to crash they wouldn't get on it in the first place let alone learn how to get an adequate oxygen supply on the way down.
	A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience's time - more than four days - which should be a hanging offense.
	Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
	War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies instead of indemnifying losses.
	Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

	A painter is a man who paints what he sells. An artist however is a man that sells what he paints.
	Some people use language to express thought some to conceal thought and others instead of thought.
	People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
	You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
	There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
	In the counsels of Government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
	God enters by a private door into every individual.


	Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
	We need to find God and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees flowers grass -- grows in silence; see the stars the moon and the sun how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.
	Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
	No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
	I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards -- in the life of an artist.
	Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
	Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace abolishing strife.
	Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
	If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
	America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
	To announce that there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile but is morally treasonable to the American public.

	That the innocent though they may have some connexion or dependency upon the guilty (which perhaps they themselves cannot help) should not upon that account suffer or be punished for the guilty is one of the plainest and most obvious rules of justice.
	Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
	If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
	Life is a fatal complaint and an eminently contagious one.
	When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world it's time to turn out the lights.
	I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
	Enjoy when you can and endure when you must.
	I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
	The path to greatness is along with others.


	The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
	You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good because every newspaper has a special department called the Bummer Desk which is responsible for digging up depressing front-page stories with headlines like DOORBELL USE LINKED TO LEUKEMIA and OZONE LAYER COMPLETELY GONE DIRECTLY OVER YOUR HOUSE.
	Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
	Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all but most of us look the other way and lose it.
	God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
	Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
	There are three types of baseball players: those who make things happen those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
	If these holy places things and days cease to remind us if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity and the perennial danger of 'religion.'
	The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
	Thinking is the hardest work there is which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.
	Eloquence may set fire to reason.
	Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
	It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
	Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
	Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.
	I couldn't tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on it's head.
	I hate it when my leg falls sleep in the middle of the day because that means it'll be up all night.
	Those who are preoccupied with 'making a statement' usually don't have any statements worth making.
	I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.
	Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.


	Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
	When the human race has once acquired a supersitition nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.
	The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workers of all countries...unite!.
	Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But this must happen in such a way that no one becomes aware of it; or if it should be noticed excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.
	If women didn't exist all the money in the world would have no meaning.
	Art is a collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better.
	But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result intelligent objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.
	There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.
	We are indeed much more than what we eat but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
	Christianity if false is of no importance and if true of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
	Many things--such as loving going to sleep or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
	Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.


	This is the very perfection of a man to find out his own imperfections.
	I wish I could give you a lot of advice based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
	Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
	The fool doth think he is wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
	If God didn't want us to eat animals why did he make them out of meat?.
	Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
	Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.
	The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.
	All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
	That government is best which governs least.
	Drug testing is very big in football. This is because football players are Role Models for young people. All you young people out there want to grow up and have enormous necks and get knee operations as often as haircuts. That's why the people in charge of football don't want you to associate it with drugs. They want you to associate it with alcohol.
	Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men between brothers?.
	Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
	The poet is in command of his fantasy while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
	The difference between divorce and legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money.
	If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart.
	History in general only informs us what bad government is.
	There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.


	He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
	No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?.
	If I had permitted my failures or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
	The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to when it is cured on one error is usually simply another error and maybe one worse than the first one.
	A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
	I guess I don't so much mind being old as I mind being fat and old.
	Ever notice that 'what the hell' is always the right decision?.
	Character is that which reveals moral purpose exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
	A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
	I didn't really say everything I said.
	Last night I discovered a new form of oral contraceptive. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said no.
	It takes a great man to be a good listener.
	Love built on beauty soon as beauty dies.
	Over the years the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.
	Over the years the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.
	If ever time should come when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
	I perceived that to express those impressions to write that essential book which is the only true one a great writer does not in the current meaning of the word invent it but since it exists already in each one of us interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
	Those who fear life are already three parts dead.
	To be a poet is a condition not a profession.
	It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
	The real problem is not why some pious humble believing people suffer but why some do not.
	In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
	All great truths begin as blasphemies.


	What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men but they do not form a class.
	Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
	A bad peace is even worse than war.
	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.
	I do not want the peace that passeth understanding I want the understanding that brings peace.
	America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom responsible government and human equality.
	Ernest Hemingway once wrote 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part.
	You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
	Get busy living or get busy dying.
	Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack.
	Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
	Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.
	Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
	Children always understand. They have open minds. They have built-in shit detectors.
	Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.


	I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
	Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
	God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman and God help him still more if he finds her.
	I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else.
	...a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
	Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.
	The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
	Luck is not chance it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
	Friends if we be honest with ourselves we shall be honest with each other.
	I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
	Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
	Many things--such as loving going to sleep or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
	It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.


	I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
	To succeed we must first believe that we can.
	There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.
	It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
	Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
	First they ignore you then they ridicule you then they fight you then you win.
	Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
	Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.
	No easy problem ever comes to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve somebody else has solved them.
	No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?.
	In the faces of men and women I see God.


	Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
	If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
	I'd rather hear an old truth than a new lie.
	Life is a fatal complaint and an eminently contagious one.
	Time takes it all whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all time bears it away and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness and sometimes we lose them there again.
	Chastity...the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
	Experts tell us that if the Millennium Bug is not fixed when the year 2000 arrives our financial records will be inaccurate our telephone system will be unreliable our government will be paralyzed and airline flights will be canceled without warning. In other words things will be pretty much the same as they are now.
	All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
	The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
	We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
	People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster that we are thinking faster too.
	Reason is our soul's left hand Faith her right.
	Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.
	The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have taking one with another no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
	Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.


	
	One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
	Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
	To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities.
	Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
	Intoxicated with unbroken success we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace too proud to pray to the God that made us.
	Blood is the ink of our life's story.
	Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.
	Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?.
	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.
	'It will obliterate your senses!' reports David Gillin who obviously writes autobiographically.
	When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.
	When we ask for advice we are usually looking for an accomplice.
	Ignorance the root and the stem of every evil.
	Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.
	Go to Heaven for the climate Hell for the company.
	It is never okay to throw away veteran underwear. A real guy checks the garbage regularly in case somebody - and we are not naming names but this would be his wife - is quietly trying to discard his underwear which she is frankly jealous of because the guy seems to have a more intimate relationship with it than with her.
	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.
	Have you ever heard people say 'don't sweat the details'? Well they're wrong: sweat the details. They have a name for people who sweat the details: millionaires.
	Beauty is truth truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth and all ye need to know.
	I think; therefore I am.



	America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
	Be 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.
	A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
	You put water into a cup it becomes the cup. You put water into a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can crash drip flow...be water my friend.
	Courage is the most beautiful kind of madness.
	The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election the people who count the votes do.
	The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election the people who count the votes do.
	The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing and it fortifies you.
	Virtues are acquired through endeavor Which rests wholly upon yourself. So to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
	I think a good gift for the president would be a chocolate revolver. And since he's so busy you'd probably have to run up to him and hand it to him.
	Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
	Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
	It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about he goes off and gets married.
	No good film is too long and no bad film is short enough.



	We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it. 
	There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
	My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
	Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.
	This is slavery not to speak one's thought.
	It ain't over till it's over.
	Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
	Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
	It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
	More than kisses letters mingle souls.
	Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
	Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
	Take from the church the miraculous the supernatural the incomprehensible the unreasonable the impossible the unknowable the absurd and nothing but a vacuum remains.
	Let us celebrate our agreement with the adding of chocolate to milk.
	If you judge people you have no time to love them.


	Success didn't spoil me I've always been insufferable.
	I broke a mirror the other day. I'm supposed to get seven years of bad luck but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
	Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.
	It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.
	I installed a skylight in my apartment yesterday. The people who live above me are furious.
	Drinking makes such fools of people and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
	The one thing that unites all human beings regardless of age gender religion economic status or ethnic background is that deep down inside we ALL believe that we are above- average drivers.
	I do not want the peace that passeth understanding I want the understanding that brings peace.
	The government is best which governs least.
	You can never plan the future by the past.
	We're all on the same roller coaster just in different seats.
	I hate it when my leg falls sleep in the middle of the day because that means it'll be up all night.
	Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere they say nothing or talk nonsense or indulge in sheer diabolism.
	Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
	If one does not understand a person one tends to regard him as a fool.
	A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
	Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
	A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
	Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.


	I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
	When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
	Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
	There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into the sun.
	To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
	Pain is just weakness leaving the body.
	Instead of burning a guy at the stake what about burning him at the STILTS? It probably lasts longer plus it moves around.
	Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket safe dark motionless airless it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable impenetrable irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
	The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
	Peace begins with a smile.
	We firmly believe there is more to life than money beer and sex. We just don't know what it is.
	If winning isn't everything why do they keep score?.
	There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
	Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
	Alas I am dying beyond my means.
	There are no moral phenomena at all but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
	Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
	When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
	Art is the lie that tells the truth.



	That's one small step for man one giant leap for mankind.
	Last night I was playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
	A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
	When I got my first television set I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
	Contentment is natural wealth luxury is artificial poverty.
	I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up - they have no holidays.
	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.
	Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.
	Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck and the guy screams and tries to get it off I have to laugh because what IS that thing?!
	Let us celebrate our agreement with the adding of chocolate to milk.
	Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
	In the Orthodox spiritual tradition the ultimate moral question we ask is the following: Is what we are doing is what I am doing beautiful or not?.
	You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
	I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
	A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins he reflected.
	For those who believe no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe no explanation is possible.
	In the faces of men and women I see God.


	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.
	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.
	This world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.
	We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
	Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. 
	A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience's time - more than four days - which should be a hanging offense.
	Courage is the most beautiful kind of madness.
	Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
	You 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.
	Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong you will find the same man going back on this a moment later.
	Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
	Success the real success does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.
	Remember when safe sex meant not getting caught?.
	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.
	There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
	Inspiration exists but it has to find you working.
	He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
	Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.


	The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
	It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.
	Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
	I think that a young state like a young virgin should modestly stay at home and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich will in time be a great fortune and where she has a favorable predisposition it seems to me well worth cultivating.
	The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
	Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.
	The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future towards a future which has itself become the past and draw us on in their train.
	Man is by nature a political animal.
	The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
	Love is friendship set on fire.
	It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
	To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
	In baseball you don't know nothin'.


	Clarity of mind means clarity of passion too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
	Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief the souvenir of pain.
	Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
	Death is nothing but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
	An event has happened upon which it is difficult to speak and impossible to be silent.
	You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
	If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold it would be a merrier world. 
	Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
	Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters the former makes its exit.
	Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
	PRESIDENCY n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.


	We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
	Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
	I have always been offended by the song that says 'Everything is beautiful in its own way.' If everything is beautiful then the word 'beautiful' has no meaning. If everything were purple there would be no word 'purple' in the language because it would not distinguish one thing from another.
	It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
	Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are and for what whence and whereto.
	Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
	There is one thing about being President no one can tell you when to sit down.
	Faith is not only in the heart; it should be put into words.
	The fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.
	Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
	The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.
	I shut my eyes in order to see.

	Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
	A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
	It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet like the asthmatic struggling for breath so the lover must struggle for words. 
	Like as the waves make towards.
	the pebbl'd shore so do our minutes hasten to their end.
	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.
	I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
	Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
	Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
	If a man is called to be a streetsweeper he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. 
	History in general only informs us what bad government is.
	I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating.

	It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. 
	No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
	If you think there are no new frontiers watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
	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.
	America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
	Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many amid great affluence are utterly miserable.
	Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.


	Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
	There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
	I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending on the objects of benevolence the money of their constituents.
	Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
	I hate rap music which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.
	The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
	No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
	The government is best which governs least.
	This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road to safety and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair. After that you may crush him.
	If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. 
	Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him and to let him know that you trust him. 
	I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion is anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.
	Not what we say about our blessings but how we use them is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
	The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
	A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

	Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
	If society fits you comfortably enough you call it freedom.
	I am indeed rich since my income is superior to my expense and my expense is equal to my wishes.
	It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
	Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't
	I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done.
	It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition to blaspheme to outrage good taste to corrupt the youthful mind and generally to scandalize one's uncles.
	There are men in all ages who mean to govern well but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters but they mean to be masters.
	The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't. 
	Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
	Wisdom has its root in goodness not goodness its root in wisdom.
	On the plus side death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
	There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war; it's to be prepared for peace.
	The doors of wisdom are never shut.

	Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.
	If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em and pass them along. When in doubt route.
	I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
	All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.
	We must never be afraid to go too far for success lies just beyond.
	First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
	I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and I missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed.
	It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
	Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame.

	God as some cynic has said is always on the side which has the best football coach.
	We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.
	As far as we can discern the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
	A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
	Science without religion is lame religion without science is blind.
	Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
	Call on God but row away from the rocks.


	I detest racialism because I regard it as a barbaric thing whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
	The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
	The secret to staying young is to live honestly eat slowly and lie about your age.
	Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth with a top speed of 120 ft/sec is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.
	How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?.
	It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
	The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
	Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets.
	Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
	In order to succeed your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
	Information is not knowledge.

	My role in society or any artist's or poet's role is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher not as a leader but as a reflection of us all.
	If everybody's thinking alike somebody isn't thinking.
	A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
	Never give in--never never never never in nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
	I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
	The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
	I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?.
	Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
	People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
	First they ignore you then they ridicule you then they fight you then you win.
	Black holes are where God divided by zero.

	A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
	The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.
	Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
	Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
	Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten but they may start a winning game.
	A man never lies as much as after a hunt during a war and before an election.
	It's better to be good than evil but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
	Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
	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.
	War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies instead of indemnifying losses.
	A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
	Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing.

	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.
	I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
	If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
	I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
	To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all.
	There are two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
	If God is satisfied with the work the work may be satisfied with itself.
	The jaws of power are always open to devour and her arm is always stretched out if possible to destroy the freedom of thinking speaking and writing.
	It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

	God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
	A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.
	Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
	If a man happens to find himself he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
	Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?.
	Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces I would still plant my apple tree.
	Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
	The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet.

	Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
	Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world.
	The battle is now joined on many fronts. We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter; and we will not fail.
	If I ran a school I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them and then told me what they learned from them.
	Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.
	The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
	Remember when safe sex meant not getting caught?.

	Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
	Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
	This is fascinating! I love this picture! So I know it's going to be a bomb. It's always a disaster when you love something.
	Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
	You can observe a lot just by watchin'.
	There are three things extremely hard: steel a diamond and to know one's self.
	If I had permitted my failures or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
	If we do not help a man in trouble it is as if we caused the trouble.
	I believe we are born with our minds open to wonderful experiences and only slowly learn to limit ourselves to narrow tastes. We are taught to lose our curiosity by the bludgeon-blows of mass marketing which brainwash us to see 'hits' and discourage exploration.
	Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey.
	Peace begins with a smile.

	Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
	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.'
	It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light and certainly not desirable as one's hat keeps blowing off.
	Where all think alike no one thinks very much.
	There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war; it's to be prepared for peace.
	Where there is a lack of honor in government the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
	Success is not final failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
	Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
	The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
	Today I begin to understand what love must be if it exists. When we are parted we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
	Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
	Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over heart and thought and all the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.
	History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.


	A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
	Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
	Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
	Pick battles big enough to matter small enough to win.
	The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
	You can never plan the future by the past.
	A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth.
	Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.


	A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.
	Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
	You do ill if you praise but worse if you censure what you do not understand.
	Start off every day with a smile and get it over with.
	Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
	The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world. 
	We're not all alike but we can all like each other.
	Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men between brothers?.
	You gain strength experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.
	Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.


	The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!.
	It was impossible to get a conversation going everybody was talking too much.
	We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared so we may always be free.
	I'm not upset about my divorce. I'm only upset I'm not a widow.
	Lead follow or get out of the way.
	If Jack's in love he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
	Sex is emotion in motion.


	Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
	Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
	Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
	You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
	When asked 'How do you write?' I invariably answer 'one word at a time.'
	The energy the faith the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
	It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
	People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
	There are three types of baseball players: those who make things happen those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
	You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.
	If you go on with this nuclear arms race all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
	A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
	As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs and if no man objected and no man rebelled those wrongs would last forever.
	Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
	I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.


	If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items just carry those twenty percent.
	It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
	I do not pray for success I ask for faithfulness.
	There is no act however virtuous for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.
	We must never be afraid to go too far for success lies just beyond.
	If a man does his best what else is there?.
	We build too many walls and not enough bridges.


	Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
	Money buys you everything except the chance to do it again.
	There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
	Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
	Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
	History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
	Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
	One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
	When a friend is in trouble don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
	The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle—the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.
	I stopped getting the girl about ten years ago. Which is just as well because I'd forgotten what I wanted her for.
	Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.


	Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.
	My first wish is to see this plague of mankind war banished from the earth.
	Neither fire nor wind birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
	A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
	If you don't risk anything you risk even more.


	That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
	I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.
	The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given but are the activity itself in consummation.
	Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good lucky feeling.
	The artist is nothing without the gift but the gift is nothing without work.
	Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
	Life is not a support system for art. It's the other way around.


	Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book.
	The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing and it fortifies you.
	Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.
	We each have the kind of children we deserve.
	Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
	There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.


	If I have ever made any valuable discoveries it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
	Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long intricate intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
	Anger as soon as fed is dead. 'Tis starving makes it fat.
	Time is too slow for those who wait too swift for those who fear too long for those who grieve too short for those who rejoice but for those who love time is eternity.
	Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them they will forgive us everything even our gigantic intellects.
	The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
	There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
	Some people are afraid of heights. Not me I'm afraid of widths.


	If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
	I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
	The miracle is not that we do this work but that we are happy to do it.
	There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man beyond history and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
	The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and as the magnet finds the iron so it will find in every hour some heavenly blessings!.
	I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?.
	Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.
	No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
	Experience teaches only the teachable.
	The beginning is the most important part of the work.
	Beauty is truth truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth and all ye need to know.
	I haven't been with a woman in nine months.
	A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.
	Start off every day with a smile and get it over with.
	You don't take a photograph you make it.


	I believe one of the reasons so many do not get a higher education is the fear of their parents that they will lose more morally than they will receive mentally.
	I perceived that to express those impressions to write that essential book which is the only true one a great writer does not in the current meaning of the word invent it but since it exists already in each one of us interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
	You may think the President is all-powerful but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
	A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.
	The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it those that we inspire contract it and habit fills up what remains.
	It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about he goes off and gets married.
	The whole purpose of a husband and wife is that when hard times knock at the door you should be able to embrace each other.
	A strict master will not have understanding sons.


	Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
	Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there and my estimate is that at any given moment 14.7 million of them are lost. This is because the Tokyo street system holds the world outdoor record for randomness. A map of Tokyo looks like a tub of hyperactive bait. There is virtually no street that goes directly from anywhere to anywhere.
	I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.
	Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
	Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
	A man's kiss is his signature.
	Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
	It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
	Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
	Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.
	A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth.
	Age does not always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.


	The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himeslf with a most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
	The artist is nothing without the gift but the gift is nothing without work.
	Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.
	I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
	The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get.
	God enters by a private door into every individual.
	There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
	Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
	I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
	The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.


	The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing but we refuse to believe it.
	A word is not a crystal transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
	The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them for the most part humble tolerant and kind.
	I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
	When you're as great as I am it's hard to be humble.
	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.
	An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
	Physics is like sex: sure it may give some practical results but that's not why we do it.
	If you are gonna kick society in the teeth you might as well use both feet.
	The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
	Whenever you are asked if you can do a job tell 'em 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
	Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.


	I'm a middle age white guy which means I'm constantly reminded that my particular group is responsible for the oppression of every known minority PLUS most wars PLUS government corruption PLUS pollution of the environment not to mention that it was middle-age white guys who killed Bambi's mom.
	To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.
	The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him but because he loves what is behind him.
	The most depraved type of being is that without purpose.
	There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war; it's to be prepared for peace.
	...adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
	My theology briefly is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
	Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God!.
	Men rise from one ambition to another. First they seek to secure themselves from attack and then they attack others.
	The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.
	Sacred cows make the best hamburger.


	Forgive O Lord my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
	Get your facts first then you can distort them as you please.
	Arguing is really saying ''If you were really more like me then I could like you better.''
	Time is too slow for those who wait too swift for those who fear too long for those who grieve too short for those who rejoice but for those who love time is eternity.
	There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
	All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
	Lots of people act well but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
	Never mistake motion for action.
	It is always thus impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevocable decisions.
	Our hours in love have wings; in absence crutches.
	If you can't dazzle them with brilliance baffle them with bull.
	One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
	Get mad then get over it.


	The essence of childhood of course is play which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
	Anyone can get old all you have to do is live long enough.
	The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
	There is no act however virtuous for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.
	When a thing has been said and well have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
	Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
	Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
	There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation than for bread.


	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.
	Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other.
	Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing you'll like yourself you'll have inner peace. And if you have that along with physical health you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
	Neither fire nor wind birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
	Love is the idler's occupation the warrior's relaxation and the soverign's ruination.
	For centuries theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
	The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
	We are indeed much more than what we eat but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
	An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.