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What men call empire is world-wide strife and ceaseless war. In all the world the only joy lies in a hermit's rest.
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that we should never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
The overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these are men who have spent their lives seeking power rather than themselves.
California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.
Kill a man and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are a god.
Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
I keep six honest serving-men
they taught me all I knew
their names are What and Why and When
and How and Where and Who.
I'd rather be dead than be seen with a woman old enough to be my wife.
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Wit is cultured insolence.
There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.
Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
Our most important thoughts are those which contradict our emotions.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. Impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. Immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding.
Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot and he creates gods by the dozen.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
War is progress, peace is stagnation.
A short absence quickens love, a long absence kills it.
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
It often takes more courage to change ones opinion than to keep it.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny...".
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Where there is love, there is pain.
You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Heroism consists in hanging on one minute longer.
A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
Ageing isn't that bad if you consider the alternatives.
When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Cynics are made, not born.
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
I married beneath me. All women do.
In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh.
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
Prediction is extremely difficult. Especially about the future.
History is a lie agreed upon.
God gives the nuts, He doesn't crack them.
Your body is precious. It is your vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left.
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other one isn't.
There is nothing permanent except change.
Great liars are also great magicians.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
I am not a Marxist.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Is not absence death to those who love?
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Some women are not beautiful, they only look as though they are.
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start ...
Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk.
As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
The chameleon gets behind the fly, remains motionless for some time, then he advances very slowly and gently, first putting forward one leg and then another. At last, when well within reach, he darts his tongue and the fly disappears. England is the chameleon and I am that fly.
The British happens to be the best people in the world, with the highest ideals of decency and justice and liberty and peace, and the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for humanity.
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