My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?
I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
