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Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
What, if as said, man is a bubble. [Lat., Quod, ut dictur, si est homo bulla, eo magis senex.]
Money is what you'd get on beautifully without if only other people weren't so crazy about it.
Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.
We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
I get very cranky when interrupted. I snap at people, sigh dramatically and slam my door shut.
There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.
It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.
sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.
How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
If there is a believe that is capable to move mountains it is the believe in our own strength.
The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.
Training in analysis (like any other form of chess training) should be treated very seriously.
Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.
Fifty-seven percent of Americans are do-it-yourselfers, craftspeople, and artisans and makers.
Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.
It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.
I think you can fairly say I spawned or laid an egg that has turned into a lifestyle industry.
Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.
There’s an Oriental saying I like: “If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.
The leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs.
Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star.
I think listening to music from your youth is as powerful as a scent passed beneath your nose.
The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.
No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.
In a beautiful night, under the stars, man always feels himself above the sky, beside the God!
For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!
Sometimes in life, we reach to a right place by departing from a wrong port with a wrong ship!
Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters!
Blessed are the ones who have enemies, for they have a vital reason to be better in every way.
Crowds prevent you to see the infinite horizons; get rid of the crowds and open your horizons.
Dwarf is dwarf even at the top of the mountain; giant is giant even at the bottom of the well!
Even just seconds ahead is unknown; even just seconds after is open to infinite possibilities.
Even with billions of candles, you cannot create a Sun; with billions of lies, a single Truth!
If there were no mountains, humanity would be much lazier! Challenges make people hardworking!
If your thoughts are universal, you visit every house, every window, like the Moon on the sky!
Learning must be like a house with its door always wide open; let everything enters the house!
Through helping one another, you can often eliminate the prefix 'im' from the word impossible!
A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.
Love is exaggerated affection; affection is unexaggerated love! Always be sober in everything!
City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.
People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.
Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy
The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.