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Action is eloquence. Each morning sees some task begun Each evening sees it close. Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. If you speak the truth have a foot in the stirrup. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. Perhaps someday it will be pleasant to remember even this. A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries. The course of nature is the art of God. People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk. I am easily satisfied with the very best. I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it. And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. Adlai Stevenson - a Henry James character in a Reader's Digest world. Breathes there a man with hide so tough Who says two sexes aren't enough? Good is when I steal other people's wives and cattle; bad is when they steal mine. When Babe Ruth was asked in 1930 how he felt about making more money that the President of the United States, he replied 'I had a better year than he (Herbert Hoover) did.' When Tom Snyder was asked in 1977 how he felt about making more money per year than President Carter, he replied, 'I have to go out and buy my own 707.' Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one. Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Come in the evening, come in the morning, Come when expected, come without warning; Thousands of welcomes you'll find here before you, And the oftener you come, the more we'll adore you. Accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of woman, not the grief of a child ... Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them, the more of them we will see.... Better to loose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles. The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking. Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love. No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. For knowledge, too, is itself a power. Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work. Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness. The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. Art is a human activity, consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of external signs, hands on to others feelings he has worked through, and other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them. There are no facts, only interpretations. A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him. Christian life consists of faith and charity. For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. Thanksgiving comes after Christmas. To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains! There are some remedies worse than the disease. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long. Don't play what's there, play what's not there. There are a hundred thousand useless words in the English language, but they come in handy in college football yells. It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it. The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy. A wife is the joy of a man's heart. Frankly I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive. Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish. An honest God is the noblest work of man. To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen, to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists, and must be hunted for and found. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution. There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action. What does not destroy me, makes me strong. (A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. One of the things my life has taught me is how important it is to try to say, "I love you" in ways that can be preserved, looked at, and read when you are alone or when there is adversity or when circumstances bring separation. In any case, . . . saying "I love you" is one of the "secrets" of the happy marriage that Ronnie and I have shared. Ronnie's letters move me to this day. They are his gift to me across the years, and throughout the decades of love. The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me. Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel. There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart. Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. The environment is everything that isn't me. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received. We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. It is the theory that decides what can be observed. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right, A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity. If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. It is the theory which decided what can be observed. Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. Only a life lived for others is a life worth while. The deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. God is clever, but not dishonest. Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. Imagination is more important than knowledge. When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate. Man is still responsible. ... His success lies not with the stars, but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline. There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms. "You are accepted!" ... accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask the name now, perhaps you will know it later. Do not try to do anything, perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything, do not perform anything, do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted. I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. Faith is not being sure where you're going but going anyway. And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. ... I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Know what you want to do-then do it. Make straight for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end. Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine, or to "image forth." The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean. Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw. God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful. Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over. Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. You never find yourself until you face the truth. To get profit without risk, experience without danger and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born. It is a long lane that has no turning. Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome. God will be present, whether asked or not. There is no wealth but life. We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower, that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known that immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language holds its peace in impotence. There are no rules. Just follow your heart. We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope. We conquer by continuing. Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. And thou shalt be secure because there is hope. A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude. I never fight, except against difficulties. Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love. We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever. Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty. The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. Dignity, high station, or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age. Do it big or stay in bed. The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done. Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer. Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in His presence. Judge Crater - please call your office. If you want your ship to come in, you must build a dock. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. Peace and rest at length have come, All the day's long toil is past; And each heart is whispering "Home, Home at last!" Pains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That's what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex. It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be. All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.' It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so. She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life. To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being, your own hidden being, you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it. Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness. Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset. If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible ... what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility! A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing. Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing. Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art. Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat. If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German, and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die. The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced "the worst" and survived it. Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing. To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. Past, and to come, seems best; things present, worst. I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet. "What do you think of God," the teacher asked. After a pause, the young pupil replied, "He's not a think, he's a feel." The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself. God tells me how he wants the music played - and you get in his way. It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened. There is a secret person undamaged in every individual. Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter. If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism. Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. America is a willingness of the heart. The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race. Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly! Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. There is a French saying: "Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love." Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God. Enthusiasm signifies God in us. Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union. I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. 0 liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name! You must learn to be still in the midst of activity, and to be vibrantly alive in repose. Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. We never live, but we are always in the expectation of living. He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. I read part of it all the way through. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it "lights the candle" instead of "cursing the darkness." The soil, in return for her service, keeps the tree tied to her; the sky asks nothing and leaves it free. Skate to where the puck is going and not to where it's been. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. We must travel in the direction of our fear. When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless. A man's ruin lies in his tongue. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. After all is said and done, more is said than done. To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. To err is human; to forgive, divine. Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure. Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. In philosophy an individual is becoming himself. Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So, for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one. We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory. Belief is harder to shake than knowledge. Ah, take the cash, and let the credit go. No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. If you your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care; To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. Do not manage as if you had ten thousand years before you. Look you, death stands at your elbow; make the most of your minute, and be good for something while it is in your power. We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time. Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. Life is the sum of all your choices. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Ultimately, love is self approval. I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day. To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains. One man in his time plays many parts. Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely-by planning and setting priorities. He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind. When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part, that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity. Fortunately, analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist. Before he sets out, the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities, to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander, ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations. Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life, so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out; it takes much more courage to listen. In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. I can resist everything except temptation. I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue. The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination, but the combination is locked up in the safe. Losers have tons of variety. Champions take pride in just learning to hit the same old boring winners. Good teaching is l/4th preparation and 3/4ths theatre. Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. One of these days is none of these days. When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it is. Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap. That charity which longs to publish itself, ceases to be charity. Today's sales should be better than yesterday's - and worse than tomorrow's. Our true nationality is mankind. Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living. It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens. A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies. I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it. Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm. A misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth. Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss. Forgiveness is the final form of love. Hope springs eternal in the human breast. Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road. The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle. If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for? Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest. Love me without fear Trust me without questioning Need me without demanding Want me without restrictions Accept me without change Desire me without inhibitions For a love so free . . . Will never fly away. Now the God of hope fills you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope. Gratitude is the memory of the heart. Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased. I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am. Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality. Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them. I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grow older. Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule. We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things. Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen. Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven't even begun to live. Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. Had there been a computer a hundred years ago, it would probably have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles it would be impossible to clear up all the manure. Parents are friends that life gives us; friends are parents that the heart chooses. That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him? An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished. Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you." Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example. Some folks never exaggerate-they just remember big. Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential. Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business. Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life. If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family. I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Pray for one another. It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture the soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal's rhythm of rest and activity. The glory of God is in man fully alive. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience. The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. In the war upon the powers of darkness, prayer is the primary and mightiest weapon, both in aggressive war upon them and their works; in the deliverance of men from their power; and against them as a hierarchy of powers opposed to Christ and His Church. Cast thy burden on the Lord, and he shall sustain thee. Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small. Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution. The object of art is to give life a shape. True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely. Everything passes; everything wears out; everything breaks. First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes, and then our fears - and when These are dead, the debt is due, Dust claims dust - and we die too. The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster. Culture is something you cannot buy, something you cannot import, something you cannot learn or produce at will. A writer, an artist or musician cannot sit down and say 'Now I will produce culture.' Culture is something that evolves out of the simple, enduring elements of everyday life; elements most truthfully expressed in the folk arts and crafts of a nation. The whole world is my family. If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder-storm is to the air. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty. Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it. I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms. When I was a boy, I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight. After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box. In North America there is the general belief that everything can be fixed, that life can be fixed up. In Europe, the view is that a lot can't be fixed up and that living properly is not necessarily a question of mastering the technology so much as learning to live gracefully within the constraints that the species invents. The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day. The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home. When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run. Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are. Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason. Don't get mad, get even. I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. The miserable have no medicine but hope. Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why, he does. Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold. I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men. All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone. True religion ... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life. Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me; Shall be my brother. If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's own appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes). Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are, not for what they do ... it isn't something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hearts every day. An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. They never die, who have the future in them. Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day, for it is life, the very life of life. Love doesn't grow on the trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make and you must use your imagination to make it too, just like anything else. It's all work, work. Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. Dress to please yourself.... Forget you are what you wear.... Wear what you are. Children have more need of models than of critics. All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up. I'm from Missouri; you must show me. Of all the girls that are so smart There's none like pretty Sally; She is the darling of my heart, And lives in our alley. The only artists for whom I would make way are - children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters. Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? The answer, my friend is blowin' in the wind. What God is to the world, parents are to their children. They can because they think they can. Every woman should marry - and no man. Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people. Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer. The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections. In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit. The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. Admitting error clears the score, and proves you wiser than before. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it. Beauty to me is being comfortable in your own skin. People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. Some one once said to me, 'Reverend Schuller, I hope you live to see all your dreams fulfilled.' I replied, T hope not, because if I live and all my dreams are fulfilled, I'm dead.' It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive. If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards. Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness. Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own. Learning makes a man fit company for himself. Some leaders are born women. The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. Remember this: If you work for a man, in Heaven's name, work for him. If he pays you wages which supply you bread and butter, work for him; speak well of him; stand by the institution he represents. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage - resign your position, and when you are on the outside, damn to your heart's content, but as long as you are part of the institution do not condemn it. The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die. When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking, on the other hand, makes progress from one place to another. ... The problem of life is to change worry into thinking, and anxiety into creative action. The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator. The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others. What is success? To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; That is to have succeeded. To be busy is man's only happiness. Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion. I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. Liberty is the right to do what the law permits. We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles. In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival. Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is no moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in. I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts. The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off. The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it. Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable, faith means believing the unbelievable, and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all. When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. Lips that taste of tears, they say are the best for kissing. If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God. The fewer the words, the better the prayer. Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes. The only living life is in the past and future-the present is an interlude- strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living. The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. The church exists for the sake of those outside it. It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. The unnatural - that too is natural. Think of only three things: your God, your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order. Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion. Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills. A leader is a dealer in hope. When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. He was not of an age but for all time. If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help. The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life. You can see them alongside the shuffleboard courts in Florida or on the porches of the old folks' homes up north.... They are in love, they have always been in love, although sometimes they would have denied it. And because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures. Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope. Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment. Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words. A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative. A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost. We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush. Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world. If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was 1. Fear is like fire. If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled, it will rise up and destroy you. Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.  Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love - for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do. Science is for those who learn; poetry for those who know. Bringing a child into the world is the greatest act of hope there is. Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents. There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest. Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams. In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be. Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found. Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. Love, and do what you like. Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been. If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on. Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth, Place on your hand a turquoise blue, Success will bless what'er you do. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself. So if you have a grandma, Thank the Good Lord up above, And give Grandmama hugs and kisses, For grandmothers are to love. So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere. Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is. You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough. One is easily fooled by that which one loves. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Poisons pain you; Rivers are damp; Acid stains you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live. If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully, Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. A speech does not need to be eternal to be immortal. The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest. Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me. It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit is devil's work. Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon. Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it. The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is "what does a woman want"? Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth. Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. The kiss of sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth. Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently. The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience. It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life. No, this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists. Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion. Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. ... If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe. There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth. Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him. If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well. Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter. Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe? From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash. I'm saving my money. The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done. I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Pessimist - one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent. But when we work for others, our efforts return to bless us. A delusion, a mockery, and a snare. Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with God. The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. The true object of human life is play. Your wealth is where your friends are. Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself. And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country . My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." Without love, benevolence becomes egotism. The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man. To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die. If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. Lord, if you can't make me thin - can you make all my friends fat? The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other. The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. What we play is life. What does not destroy me, makes me strong. Most people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan. Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people. A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race. I have an inward treasure born within me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld; or offered only at a price I cannot afford. Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture. Every hero becomes a bore at last. Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm. Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side. Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. Fear is not an unknown emotion to us. Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the sons of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity. Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' 'No', said the priest, 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?' I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe. What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things. Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism. The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. A liar should have a good memory. The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation. Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved. Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy? Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost. A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. It is in changing that things find purpose. The way to be safe is never to be secure. He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others. Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them and with them. We only think when we are confronted with a problem. To be simple is to be great. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love. Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then. Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks. She claims she just turned thirty, but it must have been a U-turn! I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday? A robin redbreast in a cage Sets all heaven in a rage. The freshmen bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out, so it accumulates through the years. Better know nothing than half-know many things. God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them. It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself. Our human resources, as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly.... Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all our activities. You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard-working. Never be fainthearted. Be resolute, but never bitter.... Permit no one to dissuade you from pursuing the goals you set for yourselves. Do not fear to pioneer, to venture down new paths of endeavor. It is easier to begin well than to finish well. Flirtation - attention without intention. Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force. With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase. Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer. Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence. Today is yesterday's pupil. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if, at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth, I shall have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me. A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives, and not in what he is able to receive. Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. If you aren't going all the way, why go at all? To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo: but else, not for the world. Sermons in stones and good in every thing. Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. Worry never climbed a hill, worry never paid a bill, Worry never dried a tear, worry never calmed a fear, Worry never darned a heel, worry never cooked a meal, It never led a horse to water, nor ever did a thing it "oughter." Art hath an enemy called ignorance. Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying. True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous, and it is rare. Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful. The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. We can do no great things-only small things with great love. Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature, and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles. Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much. This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction. Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad experience. I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it. The best carpenters make the fewest chips. City life - millions of people being lonesome together. I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are secure in our own soul. It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you. The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him. Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery. Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. One bliss for which there is no match is when you itch to up and scratch. The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. In Ireland, a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist. There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God. I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions, and composed our masterpieces. Never will the world know all it owes to them, nor all they have suffered to enrich us. The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity. One filled with joy preaches without preaching. Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous. Beauty without expression tires. There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen. To have great poets there must be great audiences too. My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened. It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both. Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand. Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught Hell for. A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life. A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn't want. It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. The love of money is the root of all evil. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last. Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing, you will never get it. God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction. Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying. When I married Mr. Right, I didn't know his first name was Always. I am not young enough to know everything. It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old. The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. God has not promised skies always blue, flower-strewn pathways all our lives through; God has not promised sun without rain, joy without sorrow, peace without pain. But God has promised strength for the day, rest for the labor, light for the way, Grace for the trials, help from above, unfailing sympathy, undying love. Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind. If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title. Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. What should they know of England, who only England know? Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony, like a following breeze at sea, is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost, our lot is to tack and tune. I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man. Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I many not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift. London is a roost, for every bird. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. All to myself I think of you, Think of the things we used to do, Think of the things we used to say, Think of each happy bygone day, Sometimes I sigh, and sometimes I smile, But I keep each olden, golden while All to myself. Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more. It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home. Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine. Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars. It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn. Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles. Enthusiasm is life. We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state. Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie. There is a need for heroism in American life today. Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. As a matter of biology, if something bites you it is probably female. It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place, or in the second place. Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day. Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially. I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. In politics, a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster. The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want? Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. To persevere in one's duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny. In the field of observation, chance favours the prepared mind. If you can't believe in God the chances are your God is too small. Don't let other people tell you what you want. Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but you must get at a man through his own religion, not through yours. No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. Courage is being scared to death ... and saddling up anyway. It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. We have too many sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. Be willing to have it so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it. Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure. Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again. Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting to change all the tenor of our lives. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate. If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know and not be known, live in a city. The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain agnostic. The time is always right to do what is right. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear. But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. Flowers may beckon towards us, but they speak toward heaven and God. It's the whole, not the detail, that matters. If people focused on life's really important matters, there'd be a shortage of golf clubs. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. The first duty of love is to listen. A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer and forgiveness. The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. There are three things a man must do alone. Be born, die, and testify. When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large. O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. Important principles may and must be flexible. They say, "You can't give a smile away; it always comes back." The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around, comes around. Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them. It is always in season for old men to learn. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. Forgiveness means letting go of the past. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day. There may be ways in which we can work for change. We don't have to do dramatic things or devote our entire lives to it. We can lead normal lives but at the same time try hard not to be bystanders. Where love is, no room is too small. Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory. Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can bel How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is I To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream. The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. Do not wish to be anything but what you are. Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Know him, know me. If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. This is not a dress rehearsal. This is It. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. Change is the only evidence of life. Death is a delightful hiding-place for weary men. True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. The dedicated life is the life worth living. We, ignorant of ourselves, beg often our own harms, which the wise powers deny us for our good. Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to he who does not concern us at all. I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day. I always say my God will take care of me. If it's my time I'll go, and if it's not I won't. I feel that He really has a lot of important things for me to do. And He's going to make sure that I'm here to do them. As old as the itch. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Money isn't everything - but it's a long way ahead of what comes next. Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it. A decent boldness ever meets with friends. The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward. There will always be an England While there's a country lane Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain. A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past. A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. We carry with us the wonders we seek without us. Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time. Twelve Highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion. We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed. I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission. Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, savour you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it will not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky, and want, more than all the world, your return. But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go. I want to do it because I want to do it. That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw. Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. There are only two families in the world, as a Grandmother of mine used to say, the haves and the have-nots. As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. God loveth the clean. Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is. Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become. I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. The "C" students run the world. Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go. The difference between one man and another is not mere ability ... it is energy. Because God is love, the most important lesson He wants you to learn on earth is how to love. A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there. Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear. I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery. No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within. Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need. Love rules without rules. (Amore regge senza legge.) If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack! A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education. Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run. Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. If you would be loved, love and be lovable. Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to race tracks at the age of two, and jockeys before they are old enough to shave. We ought to face our destiny with courage. With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured. Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it. Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. Rule No. i is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is, it's all small stuff. All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope. I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long, They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things. Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that liveth thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do for any fellow being, let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again. It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much. Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them. It takes two to make peace. Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat. Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent. As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state. If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge. Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance. Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out of love you cite. I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; for when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart. Prisoners of hope. Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. Above all things have devoted love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins. It takes immense genius to represent, simply and sincerely, what we see in front of us. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, who am I for? And if not now, when? Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time. Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise. Behind bad luck comes good luck. all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again. Grant me the courage not to give up, even though I think it is hopeless. Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. "Honesty" without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility. Love doesn't make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Luck is a word devoid of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. You must be holy in the way God asks you to be holy. God does not ask you to be a Trappist monk or a hermit. He wills that you sanctify your everyday life. Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick. The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. And seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Your problem is you're ... too busy holding onto your unworthiness. The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year. Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young. Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life? If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart. Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others. He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities. It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone. As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind. Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself. When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark! Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream. Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you; all things are passing; God never changes. There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? Have the courage to act instead of react. We do not remember days, we remember moments. Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown. Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. Injustice never rules forever. Reading maketh a full man. I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right." In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter. If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst. Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but, my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift. We know what we are, but know not what we may be. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others." Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen. Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum. Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. I'm happier. ... I guess I made up my mind to be that way. Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody. The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth. As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition. Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun. For when the wine is in, the wit is out. Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different. Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. A truth that's told with bad intent - beats all the lies you can invent. Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield. I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others. We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. My father never raised his hand to any one of his children - except in self-defense. I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do. It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men. That is the beauty of the Common Law, it is a maze and not a motorway. There is no such thing as inner peace, there is only nervousness and death. We know what we are, but know not what we may be. A fool and his money are soon parted. I keep six honest serving-men they taught me all I know; their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who, Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly! Remember that you are an Englishman and consequently have won first prize in the lottery of life. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt. I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. [Our children] had the privilege of growing up where they'd raised a lot of food. They were never hungry. They could share their food with people. And so, you share your lives with people. You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others? Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. Remember that the Devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand different ways You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity. We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue. Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads. Stated to a running back after an overly exuberant display of celebration: Next time you make a touchdown, act like you've been there before. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail. She's somebody's mother, boys, you know, For all she's aged and poor and slow. The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife? The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. The happy people are those who are producing something. Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning. Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear That which disfigures it. Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow. He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short. The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go to the place from which I shall not return. When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different. This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting. They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. First, teach a person to develop to the point of his limitations and then- pfft!-break the limitations. Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer. Luck is believing you're lucky. I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. A love of fashion makes the economy go round. The buck stops here. The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. What we see depends mainly on what we look for. Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be. There is no such thing as inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about. Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is. Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength. I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by. Exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It is cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner. Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality. Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. Boys don't make passes at female smart asses. Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new. The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis." God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it, but do not dare confess it to themselves. Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability. Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had. It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. I thought I was in love once, and then later I thought maybe it was just an inner-ear imbalance. Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force. O, call back yesterday, bid time return. Definition of a Jewish nymphomaniac: A woman who will make love the same day she has her hair done. The first wealth is health. She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman. Pride ruined the angels. A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization. Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill! The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening. Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. The public do not know enough to be experts, yet know enough to decide between them. Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect. Remember, no matter how many candles you blow out this year, there's one gal who will always think of you as young, strong and handsome - your mother. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Taste cannot be controlled by law. Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due. Life is not a dress rehearsal. The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over. Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. Beneath their work the moral core of Canadian nationhood is found in the fact that Canada is a monarchy and in the nature of monarchial allegiance. As America is united at bottom by the covenant, Canada is united at the top by allegiance. Because Canada is a nation founded on allegiance and not on compact, there is no pressure for uniformity, there is no Canadian way of life. Any one, French, Irish, Ukrainian or Eskimo, can be a subject of the Queen and a citizen of Canada without in any way changing or ceasing to be himself. A little kingdom I possess, Where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find Of governing it well. The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it. Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend ... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present-love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure-the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth. A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that. Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Tolerate the ... process of coming to knowledge or certainty or clarity through sometimes apparently hopeless thickets of confusion or bewilderment. Learn not to be surprised or disheartened by the muddle you inhabit, and not to press too soon for a superficial reprieve. The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the root. The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done. There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun. I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers. The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth. Prejudice is the child of ignorance. When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. When you were a tadpole and I was a fish in the Palaozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime. Television is chewing gum for the eyes. Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Better the friend we can see than the money we cannot. There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." As a beauty I am not a star, There are others more handsome by far, But my face - I don't mind it For I am behind it. It's the people in front get the jar. True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does. Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo. You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. "I'm sorry that I spell'd the word; I hate to go above you, Because" - the brown eyes lower fell, - "Because, you see, I love you!" Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words. There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time. Only those who dare, truly live. When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible. From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance. The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it. If you expect perfection from other people, your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumbling and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped. Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion. One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business that is, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards. The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not disgrace to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim, is a sin. There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one. When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again. There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships. In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Men learn while they teach. The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . and I also know that I'm not blonde. The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. Oh, don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures. Most people hate the taste of beer to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome. I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country. Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Music is well said to be the speech of angels. Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one. Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you." A one-book man is either a slow learner or an ill-equipped teacher. Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient. Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. Someday change will be accepted as life itself. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a King, and of a King of England too. There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination. My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing; Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going. And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too. Each man's character shapes his fortunes. I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. He who despises his own life is soon master of another's. My wife, Mary, and I have been married for forty-seven years, and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never. Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign. What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. Prosperity is just around the corner. Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. There is a pleasure sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know! Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit. Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous. One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. The best direction is the least possible direction. The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy. If you act like you're rich, you'll get rich. An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast. We are not certain, we are never certain. It is this intangible thing, love in many forms, which enters into every therapeutic relationship. . . . And it is an element which binds and heals, which comforts and restores, which works what we have to call - for now - miracles. Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame. The physically fit can enjoy their vices. The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. To be social is to be forgiving. A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean. Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day. Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone. My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle. Everything changes but change itself. The smallest effort is not lost, Each wavelet on the ocean tost Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow; Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow; Each struggle lessens human woe. He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was. The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men. All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope. When I look at the future, it's so bright, it burns my eyes. What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high. Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed. A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast. If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power. If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another, and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. A lawyer must first get on, then get honor, and then get honest. I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. I am he As you are me And we are all together. I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country; There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more; that of the sick, who want something different; and that of the traveler, who says, "Anywhere but here." For the night Shows stars and women in a better light. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world. There's a lot of nice things about Denver. I just don't, for the life of me, know what they are. How to make God laugh. Tell him your future plans. As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. Better be quarrelling than lonesome. Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. Learning without thought is labor lost. If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself. Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword. No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes. A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same. God and a soldier all .people adore In time of war, but not before; And when war is over and all things are righted, God is neglected and an old soldier slighted. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. Hope is a very unruly emotion. I am not now That which I have been. God pays, but not weekly wages. If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age. Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. It takes time, love, and support to find peace with the restless one. A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas. Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance. I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain. Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Inches make a champion. Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. You know what they call the guy who finishes last in medical school? They call him Doctor! I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong. If you think education is expensive - try ignorance. Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. I suppose you've heard all those wicked stories about me. Well, I've lived my life as it came and I've done bloody marvels with a bad hand. Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Journalism is literature in a hurry. True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment. "Why not" is a slogan for an interesting life. God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different. Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life. The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait, but I appreciate his efforts. It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted land, to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar. I'm not an American hero. I'm a person who loves children. Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve. Sanity is very rare; every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. If Jesus was Jewish, how come he has a Mexican name? One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living colour. Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate. It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him. The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks. One father is more than 100 schoolmasters. A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. When business is good it pays to advertise; when business is bad you've got to advertise. It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball-the further I am rolled, the more I gain. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. The man who invented slow-motion movies got his idea while watching a Scotsman reach for a check in a restaurant. I think Dostoevsky was right, that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell. For he who lives more lives than one, more deaths than one must die. The shortest answer is doing. By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. Life is the only art that we are required to practise without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner. Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. If only God would give me a clear sign, like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. I have trodden the winepress alone. If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself. Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand. Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues. I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past. Keep in mind ... to a dog you are family, to a cat you are staff. Learn to ... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today. I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love. The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. When actors begin to think, it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it. Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow. He who complains, sins. Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind. History is more or less bunk. There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down. The honester the man, the worse luck. Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value. Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign. From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire. The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid. The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be. Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button. You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself. I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession. My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off. There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him. Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another. See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little. No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it. Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before. His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. A half-truth is a whole lie. In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly. Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. They say love is blind . . . and marriage is an insritution. Well, I'm nor ready for an instirurion for rhe blind just yet. Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought, his life a breath of God. A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. The real question isn't whether or not you love your kids, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved. It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. By prayer we couple the powers of heaven to our helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible possible. It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today. An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult. When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. Writers aren't exactly people, they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person. Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality. It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine. What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself. The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing but man's failures. Call no man happy till he is dead. When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade. You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious. If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. If you ask the hungry man how much is two and two, he replies four loaves. Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul. May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart. A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience. We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not. When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. Family is just accident. . . . They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head. Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private. Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it. You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete. Friendships aren't perfect, and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release. If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it. Knowledge is power. Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. He that fights and runs away Will live to fight another day. Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell. The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart. It is well that war is so terrible - we would grow too fond of it. My only policy is to profess evil and do good. Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy. You can observe a lot just by watching. Form ever follows function. In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right. All men by nature desire to know. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt. When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. The question is whether suicide is the way out, or the way in. Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it. The great fault in women is to desire to be like men. A woman who is found without her veil in some regions of Islam will, it is reported, raise her skirt to cover her face. We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. Love conquers all. We are what we believe we are. We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God. I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian. There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city. Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient. Time is the only critic without ambition. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Heaven itself has ordained the right. I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating. All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all. If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you. And all the loveliest things there be Come simply, so it seems to me. One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still. The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so. The absent are always wrong. Debt is a bottomless sea. The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him. The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly. Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. One of the saddest things is, the only thing a man can do for 8 hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat 8 hours a day nor drink for 8 hours a day, nor make love for 8 hours. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. The child is father to the man. Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. What's done to children, they will do to society. You say to me-ward's your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long. A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky. The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. Strong people don't need strong leaders. We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. Sure I love the dear silver that shines in your hair, And the brow that's all furrowed, and wrinkled with care. I kiss the dear fingers, so toil-worn for me, Oh, God bless you and keep you, Mother Machree. We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life. Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point when we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will. Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire. The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope. Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. Poor men's reasons are not heard. Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them. If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart. A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. A happy life is made up of little things-a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent. None but a mule denies his family. Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone. What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. We call first truths those we discover after all the others. If you want a thing done, go - if not, send. We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon-to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go ... we must continually ask ourselves, "What will happen if ... ?" or better still, "How can we make it happen?" The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love. Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately. Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock, and assumes 10 different positions in a day. The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. A cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18. It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed? Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. All wars are popular for the first 30 days. Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy. Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home. Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. You can live to be a hundred, if you give up all the things that make you want to live to a hundred. Wealth lost-something lost; Honor lost-much lost; Courage lost-all lost. Friends are relatives you make for yourself. The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. I was chosen to speak due to my warm personality. . . . Look up warm and it means "not so hot." True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. War never leaves, where it found a nation. I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart. The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced - it can not be told. Some call it Evolution, And others call it God. A friend is a present you give to yourself. Sports do not build character. They reveal it. Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me. You say to your soldier, 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American, 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it. The English never draw a line without blurring it. The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one. Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true. We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. Basically, I'm interested in friendship, sex and death. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead. A building is a string of events belonging together. Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them. The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth. Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work. So many laws argue so many sins. The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. The best way to make children good is to make them happy. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact. For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. Life begins on the other side of despair. Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day. Learn to say 'No'; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. The Lord is close to those whose hearts are breaking. I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another. Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there. Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia. The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes. I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote; A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat; So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote. Literature is my utopia. There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience. A wounded deer leaps the highest. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba, in 1870, did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land, but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small, but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great, but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small, because the right is the same for everyone. Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to. Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. Love me, please; I love you; I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything ... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future. There may be little or much beyond the grave, But the strong are saying nothing until they see. Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness. God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God. Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can-and surely will at times-fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite. Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love. I'm glad I never feel important, it does complicate life. A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents. May you live all the days of your life. One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten. Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. ... One of these days is Yesterday ... And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow. A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down. Let there be spaces in your togetherness. Mozart's music gives us permission to live. To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is. There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well-hammered yourself. A good book has no ending. Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it. The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours. All Socialism involves slavery. Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. My own mind is my own church. For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little. I'm at the age when food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. Invalids live longest. Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best. Change occurs when one becomes what she is, not when she tries to become what she is not. Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away. Old age is like everything else, to make a success of it you got to start young. The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. The course of true love never did run smooth. The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. There's no labor a man can do that's undignified, if he does it right. When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on. You can tell German wine from vinegar ... by the label. It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day. Life begins on the other side of despair. Chance favours only those who know how to court her. Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough. Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers; Soon these will slip from out the twig's weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers. There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape, self-named Homo Sapiens. Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic. The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. God helps them that helps themselves. To sleep! perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. Hope is the last thing that dies in man. Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes. Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, and I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever. Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle. Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind. Though this may be play to you, Tis death to us. If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it. It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. England and America are two countries separated by the same language. Just do your best today and tomorrow will come ... tomorrow's going to be a busy day, a happy day. The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable. Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work. Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York. They know enough who know how to learn. For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth - to know the worst and provide for it. Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even. Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop. The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth. Anything that comes easy, comes wrong. It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble; how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world. Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves. One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords. I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf. [Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs. It is not our circumstances that c reate our discontent or contentment. It is us. True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Vessels never give so great a sound as when they are empty. Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. A great city, a great solitude. A woman, the more careful she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. Difficulties exist to be surmounted. As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. I'll wager that in ten years it will be fashionable again to be a virgin. Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen. There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in. Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods. There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. There is a devil in every berry of the grape. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had? Man is what he believes. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness." 3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. The simplest questions are the hardest to answer. Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at; I am not what I am. A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another. As you cannot do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. The past is never dead-it is not even past. Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens. Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion. Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. Constant prayer quickly straightens out our thoughts. Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human. We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these, and evil. A woman is like a tea bag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is. An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose. You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference. Soon after a hard decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves the decision. I love humanity but I hate people. The future is not a gift - it is an achievement. Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands. Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is! Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. I'm not funny. What I am is brave. You have to believe in gods to see them. There was an old man who said, "How Shall I flee from this horrible cow? I will sit on this stile, and continue to smile, Which may soften the heart of that cow." The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune. They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world. Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. 'Be yourself!' is about the worst advice you can give to some people. I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches. I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts. True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them. Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? ... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind. Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it. When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. He giveth His beloved sleep. Children are the bridge to heaven. Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction. All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty, instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity. Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. Lord, if any have to die this day, let it be me, for I am ready. All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another. True knowledge comes only through suffering. All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do. I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing, I'd rather walk.' Prosperity is not just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. We like that a sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. He that increaseth knowledge increascth sorrow. There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world. There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless. Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence. Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee. The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points. There are few successful adults who were not first successful children. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. Even in the deepest sinking there is the hidden purpose of an ultimate rising. Thus it is for all men, from none is the source of light withheld unless he himself withdraws from it. Therefore the most important thing is not to despair. Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world-making the most of one's best. Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance. Ay me! for aught that I ever could read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. Though Love be deeper, Friendship is more wide. Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. [A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands. Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. I have admired W.C. Fields since the day he advanced upon Baby LeRoy with an ice pick. Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad. Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind. Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. No leader can be too far ahead of his followers. People who have the most birthdays live the longest. Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea. Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it. Adults are just children who earn money. Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die. There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first . . . when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. Pride is the mask of one's own faults. There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappi-ness if allowed to grow. When I saw something that needed doing, I did it. Women are like elephants. They are interesting to look at, but I wouldn't like to own one. Man is the artificer of his own happiness. Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling. The moment somebody says to me, "This is very risky," is the moment it becomes attractive to me. Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. The finding of God is the coming to one's own self. The English of the Bible has a pithiness and raciness, a homely tang, a terse sententiousness, an idiomatic flavour which comes home to men's business and bosoms ... a nobility of diction and ... a rhythmic quality . . . unrivaled in its beauty. Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun. It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God. You always admire what you really don't understand. The only question with wealth is what you do with it. Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability. Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear. Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life. Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God. The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. Anyone can have an off decade. I can't believe that out of a hundred thousand sperm, you were the quickest. The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time. Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee. The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides! Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which we seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty. God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat. Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who does not know what he is doing. Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today's duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time. Your mind cannot possibly understand God. Your heart already knows. Minds were designed for carrying out the orders of the heart. A comprehended God is no God at all. The nearer the church, the further from God. God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man. A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is. I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions. The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so. We could be cowards, if we had courage enough. The worst that you can say about him (God) is that basically he's an underachiever. The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven. Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it. It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes. Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. God gives the milk but not the pail. Friends are the family we choose for ourselves. Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful? Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest. I'm tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas? The lie is a condition of life. She walks in beauty, Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes. The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that! The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies. What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink. The main task of a free society is to civilize the struggle for power. Slavery of the acquiescent majority to the ruthless few is the hereditary state of mankind; freedom, a rarely acquired characteristic. I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it. I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins, who struggles on through weary years against himself ... and wins. Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that. You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. A decent boldness ever meets with friends. The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do. We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us. It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our | 
