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Advice is overrated. Before you learn what others know, you need to learn what YOU know.
My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.
Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold.
Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us.
For surely of all the drugs in the world, Chess must be the most permanently pleasurable
I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
With one eye on today's blessings you will have more staying power for the distant goal.
You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.
In our lives, when we do not create something out of total honesty, it cannot last long.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.
Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.
The movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties.
The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.
When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.
Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.
The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.
I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.
While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom.
Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.
I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.
Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.
Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.
I have made of Sydney, to which I sailed in 1965, a paradise beyond the powers of fancy.
My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.
There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.
In this uncertain world, the food is disposable. It is the wrappings that are permanent.
Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.
The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.
The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.
While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.
Whatever goal you give to your subconscious mind, it will work night and day to achieve.
If you don’t stay with your winners, you are not going to be able to pay for the losers.
Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.