Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.
Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
I’m not a survivor. Survivor comes from saying you barely made it and you’re a victim. I am triumphant. I’m not a survivor.
You cant build a reputation on what you are going to do.
I think everyone has their own set of problems, and sometimes I feel I’m in the middle of the biggest challenge of my life just trying to maintain normalcy in a kind of crazy lifestyle.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.
Should a man quit at 40 he is failure-Retire at that age is sorry failure.
Silence is so accurate.
I haven’t put a pencil to a piece of paper, working out a problem, in years; I do it in my head.
If you always do what youve always done, youll always get what youve always got.
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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.
You don’t need a rope to pinch a stranger’s butt.
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
