I think; therefore I am.
Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
The universe, at any given point, in any given time, is expanding indefinitely in all directions. So trust me when I say, you are the center of mine.’
For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied – whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.
You are mine, and that means I am on your side even when no one else is.
When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them.
He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
Life is a full-contact sport, and there’s a score up on the board.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
You have to name it to claim it.
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.
A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
The satisfaction that arises from honest accomplishment is of far more value in the promotion of human happiness than the thrill that comes with the realization of materialistic aspirations.
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
