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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forget to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.
…if I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
Any intelligent 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.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.
Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishings sake, that little more which is worth all the rest.
What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
