“We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.”
“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
“Great part of being a grownup, you never have to do anything.”
“Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.”
“The only difference between a rut and a grave… is in their dimensions.”
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
“We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
“Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.”
“Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.”
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.”
“I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.”
“Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.”
“Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is …
“I’m very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but …
“Don’t be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don’t be bitter, lest you be spewed out.”
“The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.”
“When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.”
“I don’t think there is a proper way to celebrate something which makes you happy.”
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
“Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.”
“I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.”
“Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations …
“History never looks like history when you are living through it.”
“If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to …
“Writing well mean never having to say, ‘I guess you had to be there.'”
“Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.”
“Art is science made clear.”
“Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.”
“Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.”
“The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.”
“It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.”
“Only the mediocre are always at their best.”
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against …
“Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible – not to have run away.”
“Lies are like children: they’re hard work, but it’s worth it because the future depends on them.”
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as …
“A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.”
“The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.”
“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in …
“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”