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I look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else….I never lied better.
It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.
I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with — stone clubs.
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,-and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward.
There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.
Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres.
Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.
