Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
I dont want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
You either get it or you don’t. Become one of those who get it.
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.
People will try to fix world but world will fix people.
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
When you do something that you really think is stupid, bad decision, irresponsibleand it just happens and you suffer it then that’s penalty. But if you learn from it it becomes tuition.
There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.
The world is held together by the mass of honest folk who do their daily tasks, tend their own spot in the world, and have faith that at last the Right will come fully into its own.
When you want nothing from anyone else, you’re safe for anyone to be with. Including yourself.
It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.
We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death–but it’s more peaceful.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
