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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.
So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.
The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.
The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.
It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.
If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.
You would think that everyone would leap at the chance to get rid of sin. Not so. They want relief not a cure.
The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.
Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.
Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.
Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.
Time management is only a set of skills and tools to help us more efficiently control the eventsour our lives.
[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!
Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.
Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.
Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.
It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.
Virginians were nice, they confided to each other, if caught singly. Two Virginians, of course, talked horses.
Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of my reality.
Sometimes you dance with a partner, and sometimes you dance alone. But the important thing is to keep dancing.
I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
Being a successful investor & winning in the stock market is a matter of skill & discipline and not luck alone
Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
All of the important things ... will turn out to be universally shared. It's why there will be no true aliens.
No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.
In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.
If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.
Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride, Within this house thou must not abide. For here do evil things betide.
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me.
The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.
The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance.
Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
Sometimes they do things to make me do the opposite of what they think, I think, they think, I am going to do.
When you let people put you up on a pedestal, you step one step in any direction, and you're going to go down.
To those who say Ted Bundy should burn forever in eternity I would only say, so should I, so should all of us.
I don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay, because they don't.
He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there.