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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was gonna that fast.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one: but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
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.
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being.
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.
Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.
[Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
If Pygmalion is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
[A fanatic is] one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.
I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - there is nothing small about it.
Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.'
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.
A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.'
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
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.
In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Many a man that couldn't direct you to the drug store on the corner when he was 3 will get a respectful hearing when age has further impaired his mind.
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
The knowledge of Christ's love for us should cause us to love Him in such a way that it is demonstrated in our attitude, conduct, and commitment to serve God. Spiritual maturity is marked by spiritual knowledge being put into action.
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things, and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered.
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.
Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space.
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!
Though there are very many nations all over the earth,…there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities,…one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God….To the City of Man belong the enemies of God,…so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one's self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.'
Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art…. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.
It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.
Never shall I forget the times I spent with you; continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.
Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.
Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.
It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.
Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the more important.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
A lot of advertisers lined up to throw money at this stuff because they were caught up in the hysteria about the Web. But now they want to know how you make money selling a $1.59 bottle of dish detergent on the World Wide Web.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
This, this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice…a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous, indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly…. Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party!
Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. You must be starved old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight.