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Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are.
The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can't do.
Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.
The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life.
Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?
Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.
Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.
The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.
There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.
God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.
I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.
What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?
Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.
In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood.
What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!
Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.
The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it.
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.
Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time
I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years . . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American.
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
Well," he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. "Here we are again.
Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.
The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction.
I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.
May your rice never burn,' is the New Year's greeting of the Chinese. 'May it never be gummy,' is ours.
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.
If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.
Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.
But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.
God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.
The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.
There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.
As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.