If you are good, life is good.
Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
Human beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
I’ve also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It’s sure to be a phony.
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted. He lived happily ever after.
It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable, of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth. By a faint and dream-like effort, though it be only by the vote of a scientific body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr.
During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.
Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
Friends are true Twins in Soul; they Sympathize in every thing, and have the Love and Aversion. One is not happy without the other, nor can either of them be miserable alone. As if they could change Bodies, they take their turns in Pain as well as in Pleasure; relieving one another in their most adverse Conditions.What one enjoys, the other cannot Want. Like the Primitive Christians, they have all things in common, and no Property but in one another.
Be a lamp, a lifeboat, a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Ive learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
