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I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.
Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time, nobody buys it anymore.
I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time; nobody buys it anymore.
Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.
When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.
I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world.
Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.
For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.
A tom cat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded: 'Take me to the canaries'.
Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.
Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheve qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.
You picked the right road, even though it is the most difficult. That is the essence of heroism. (p. 326)
Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.
Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.
There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.
It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.
My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.
All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go.
Awkwardness is when there's a risk of a perception gap between what you mean and what you appear to mean.
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.
Whenever I travel, I seem to get sick - it's probably inevitable when you're on a plane every single day.
The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches.
Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.
There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.
Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.
When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.
Somtimes when you know the right thing to do, you simply have to do it, even though it breaks your heart.
Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2.
Do we still have to floss?" Tommy asked. "I mean, what's the point of being immortal if we have to floss?
Like most Beta Males, he didn't realize that being a good guy was not necessarily an attraction to women.
It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism.
Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."