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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast. You can't wait to do your exercises. You can't wait to put on your clothes. You can't wait to get out, and you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
I don't like work…but I like what is in work, the chance to find yourself. Your own reality, for yourself, not for others, which no other man can ever know.
You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.
So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it; a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life…. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually.
He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel.
A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him… Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
