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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.
He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.
The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.
They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.
The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.
Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.
The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
A moment of prayerful reflection can prevent a lifetime of bitter regret.
To a British politician, a police officer is as invisible as the railings.
the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.
The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future.
Computers are like horses; they can sense fear and will act based on that.
We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn't be its precondition.
I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.
The thoughts you think when you are happiest are the closest to the truth.
How would I be doing this differently if I were WILLING to let it be easy?
Because fear is insatiable, everything that is insatiable is born of fear.
Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.
Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.
Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.
There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.
The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.
We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.
There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.
I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.
Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!
Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.
The thing about good art is that it makes you look at things in a new way.
Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?
Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.
Irene Nemirovsky was a prolific writer punctiliously devoted to her craft.
You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.
I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.
Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.
Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.