“To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
“About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.”
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks …
“If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.”
“I’m thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.”
“It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you …
“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.”
“Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.”
“Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.”
“There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.”
“We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.”
“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
“Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families, and …
“Things don’t fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words …
“The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.”
“Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.”
“My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible.”
“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.”
“Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.”
“I don’t hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.”
“Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”
“A diplomat… is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.”
“Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.”
“It’s all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.”
“The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former …
“ a marvelous machine…a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!”
“Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.”
“We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted… Each of us contains within… this inheritance of soul. We are links between the …
“No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There’s nothing wrong with being …
“When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury …
“I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, “I wanna grow up and be a critic.””
“Praise the bridge that carried you over.”
“Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.”
“Out of the strain of the Doing, / Into the peace of the Done.”
“Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.”
“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
“In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.”
“The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off …