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It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.
We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.
Those who realize that life is for growing and developing from each and every challenge, each day of our lives, live a life of joy!!!
The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers.
I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.
One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.
Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.
I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.
I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes
In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.
I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.
But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.
The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.
[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.
We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.
My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.
I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.
...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
I looked at him like he was an idiot, but he didn’t notice. Or maybe he got it so often, he thought that was how people looked at him.
I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.
My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace. I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.
The battlefield is first and foremost horrible stenches, not sights, not sounds, but stenches. They don't travel well into literature.
The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.
People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.
We are, each one of us, not just defined by the arrangement of protein molecules in our cells, but also by the things we call our own.
Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.
In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.
And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.
"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.
And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.
How is it possible for one to own the stars?" "To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly. "I don't know. To nobody.
India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.
I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.
Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.
If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific as well.
He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.
The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.
For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.
Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.
Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.
Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.