Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Well done is better than well said.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

I am not young enough to know everything.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
I am not young enough to know everything.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.