A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
Each soul is potentially divine.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.
As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.
