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This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.
Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.
If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.
The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.
Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.
... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.
I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.
A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.
I want to be untouchable and beautiful and completely dead inside.
Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.
Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.
If you don't appear at all one day they think you're lazy or dead.
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.
If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.
I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.
Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.
...in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.
In scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine.
If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness.
Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.
It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.
No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.
Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.
Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.
He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.