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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.
Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.
As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.
If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.
Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?
I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.
Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.
Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.
Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns.
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.
The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Don't blame Wall Street. Don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself!
They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!
Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.
The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.
But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.
Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.
When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun.
With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.
Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.
Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.
It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.
The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.
There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself.
I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them.
For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to come.
When you truly are on purpose, the people, resources, and opportunities you need naturally gravitate toward you.
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world
It takes much more energy to ignore things than it takes to deal with them and not be afflicted by them anymore.
Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.
Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.
Good try, ya bugging shank. The Gathering elects Runners, and if you think I'm tough, they'd laugh in your face.
Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.
If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk.
What test?" Asked Nudge. "Max, you're incorruptible." "Only by power." I said. "You haven't tried chocolate yet.
The hardest part about parenting is when I have to be The Dad--aka the Fun-Sucker--as opposed to being a friend.
How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it's a good place to die?
Each of us has a gift, a talent, that we can offer to the world that makes the world essentially a better place.
With an open mind, we gain insight into ideas and expressions that we may have overlooked or not noticed at all.
In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food.
I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate.
I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.