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The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.
Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.
As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.
To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.
The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.
That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.
When you say, 'Boys will be boys and girls will be girls; they're all the same' - no. Women are more vulnerable.
I have a million funny ideas for sketches, but I don't want to spend tens of thousands of dollars shooting them.
he kissed me hard. "Promise me. Promise me you'll spend New Year's with me next year," he whispered into my ear.
In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.
We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again
First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me "Animate
I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.
The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.
In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education
It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.
Reality can be entered through the main door or it can be slipped into through a window, which is much more fun.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.
That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.
The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.
You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.
Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.
Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?
Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.
The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.
The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.
Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work.
The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now
No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with.
I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?