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If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand.
I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
Perhaps each life has one sensational thought, if acted upon will bring great meaning.
The superiority of chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain…
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.
All things are possible until they are proved impossible-even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Fuck all the people who say, God bless, and then don't bother to complete the sentence. Who they are, I haven't the slightest. But, if I were God, I would not honor such a request.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.
All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.
Spirit is living, and Life is Spirit, and Life and Spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two.
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.
Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now; the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
