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Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.
I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.
He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".
We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.
If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.
In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.
A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.
Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God.
Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.
Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.
Don't see haters as a reason to give up; instead see them as a sign that you are starting to become successful.
Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.
I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.
No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.
No one wants your worries...not even you. Anxiety comes at a high cost. Let Jesus lead you beside still waters.
Today's belief is tomorrow's behavior. If you want to be happier person tomorrow, sow seeds of happiness today.
People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.
Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.
A relationship ends because you've outgrown it. It can begin again because you, as two, can fill the new shape.
To be honored by success is to take your life seriously. To humble-talk about it is to take yourself seriously.
You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
She can't let him go not telling him what she was about to do. Kingsley...I can't do this. I'm coming with you.
That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.
A clear division between good and evil, right and wrong, would simplify everything, but life was rarely simple.
Today, I will focus on what's right about me. I will give myself some of the caring I've extended to the world.
Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.
No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.
We are inadvertently in love with the Influence of Power and we need to be in love with the Power of Influence.
By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.
Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.
Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.
Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
You can have intense food experience with less food. Europeans have intense food experiences but eat less food.
I think the most important thing we can teach our kids for their long-term health and happiness is how to cook.
If there is anything in your life that takes away your happiness, you have all the power you need to change it.
You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship
You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!
I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.
The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.
Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.
It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.