The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have because when you're talking about building a house you're talking about dreams.
You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like 'See if you can blow this out.'
Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
Over and over we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training diet and mental approach.
It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.
Happiness is found in doing not merely possessing.
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality and instead of thinking how things may be to see them as they are.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life.
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
By going to the movies and because of other things too going to college making a wide variety of friends moving around traveling I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
In truth I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her too. And so Krishna is parented by me but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well it's cheaper and you get more feet.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's.
Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress investment of goodwill affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Every age can be enchanting provided you live within it.
My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.
Feels good to try but playing a father I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
Without initiative leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
You know if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
It is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Frustration although quite painful at times is a very positive and essential part of success.
If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it they're first to join.
Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.
My husband Jim converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions measurements and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love beauty friendship or decency for example?
I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music but actually a lot of kids know the music and if anything is left we have left really good music and that's the important part not the mop-tops or whatever.
After you're older two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art like the art of fireworks.
The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
All men are created equal it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side the catastrophe is still there.
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
It is after all the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.
It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
I knew that there were black people in Africa of course unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'
The greater the state the more wrong and cruel its patriotism and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut destiny life karma whatever. This approach has never let me down and it has made all the difference in my life.
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it.
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Rationalism is the enemy of art though necessary as a basis for architecture.
My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
Dream manfully and nobly and thy dreams shall be prophets.
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.
I believe that if you're healthy you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.
If you want to conquer fear don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
God sleeps in the minerals awakens in plants walks in animals and thinks in man.
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs my kidneys my liver my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat determination and hard work.
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry I was listening to European classical music.
Brain power improves by brain use just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population from school days to late middle age now have very complicated lives indeed.
I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
My father wouldn't get us a TV he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
If God can work through me he can work through anyone.
A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
All of us grow up in particular realities - a home family a clan a small town a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born or we are peripherally aware of it.
A place for everything everything in its place.
It is sad not to love but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well poetry is just the ash.
Throughout history great leaders have known the power of humor.
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
With age you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible and I cried for three days.
About half my designs are controlled fantasy 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
I concentrate on exercises from the waist down since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
The average healthy well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
A sense of humor is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
I think that focusing on the money on the business is not enough.
Music when healthy is the teacher of perfect order and when depraved the teacher of perfect disorder.
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
Keywords : stubborn
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties mental and physical but the burden of one's memories.
What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.
Relentless repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
Right now I'm pretty single My career is my boyfriend.
All architecture is shelter all great architecture is the design of space that contains cuddles exalts or stimulates the persons in that space.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved the inquisition might have let him alone.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else.
Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely if ever do they forgive them.
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers the House and the Senate but you have simply majoritarian absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
Age does not protect you from love. But love to some extent protects you from age.
When it comes down to it it's about who you know and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age whether you're hot or not whether the studio is into you or not.
At a young age winning is not the most important thing the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Without freedom no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself and dies of all others.
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Loss is nothing else but change and change is Nature's delight.
I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship.
At some point in your life if you're lucky you get to design the way in which things evolve.
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.
If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves the only final sin is stupidity.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
In a free society government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact if anything I am the prod.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.
I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are for the time being separate from the world and have a harmony of aspiration.
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it friends make life a lot more fun.
We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.
I used to want to be a lawyer but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.
Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty which is nice.
A musician must make music an artist must paint a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
I can promise you that women working together - linked informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we find it not.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities treatment centers homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
My best friend just had a baby and she's my age. So I'm a godmom now which is crazy.
I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger or parenting ad nauseam.
Never do anything when you are in a temper for you will do everything wrong.
Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.
A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
I started dating older men and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.
I used to be hung up on my figure but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night be healthy the next.
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Also my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.
Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep deep deep in there. Every step of the way.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
Through humor you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter no matter how painful your situation might be you can survive it.
If there are no stupid questions then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
Marriage n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master a mistress and two slaves making in all two.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net in some ways is that the fundamentals are really good.
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
Man is not free unless government is limited.
Men of age object too much consult too long adventure too little repent too soon and seldom drive business home to the full period but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Even though I'm not a competitive athlete I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
I'm not a driven businessman but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927 I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Rest is not idleness and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day listening to the murmur of the water or watching the clouds float across the sky is by no means a waste of time.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who however has never learned how to walk forward.
This is God's world not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs not non-Christians.
I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out.
What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.
I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
I was very successful from a very early age and I want to keep it.
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry it would be filtered through the lens of race sex and age.
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out starting with himself.
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.
I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets exercise kids make-up.
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Few people even scratch the surface much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
As sure as the spring will follow the winter prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250000 in Britain.
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
Your intellect may be confused but your emotions will never lie to you.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Marriage should be a duet - when one sings the other claps.
I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.
Yes we love peace but we are not willing to take wounds for it as we are for war.
Politics have no relation to morals.
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
If you think it's hard to meet new people try picking up the wrong golf ball.
The Internet is so big so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless of course you happen to be a bottle of wine.
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty justice and happiness which are everything in this world.
I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas people behind me stop and I'm gone.
I got up with my wife I sat down at the computer when she went to work and I didn't stop until she got home.
I need my food to keep my energy up so I can't really diet.
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil and there a plant may take it up again in time sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
If history repeats itself and the unexpected always happens how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Today if you look at financial systems around the globe more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
I figure that if the children are alive when I get home I've done my job.
Where ignorance is our master there is no possibility of real peace.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices a rottenness begins in his conduct.
You don't play against opponents you play against the game of basketball.
To an adolescent there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.
And I think women have come a very very long way but they have a long way to go.
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age I don't have the patience to learn.
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young the habituation of the middle-aged and the mutual dependence of the old.
My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well you gotta have a place to park the car.'
The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money But we are not going to buy Yahoo!
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet Doctor Quiet and Doctor Merryman.
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy we go out and wreck something with it.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge experience and ability.
You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
All generalizations are false including this one.
While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
Like many intellectuals he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
We must let go of the life we have planned so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
A good film is when the price of the dinner the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
In most places in the country voting is looked upon as a right and a duty but in Chicago it's a sport.
I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
People who don't travel cannot have a global view all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.
It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.
You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret in my chilled age certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
See what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car aren't you? Well I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
The monarchy is foremost a business and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
Whether in chains or in laurels liberty knows nothing but victories.
Personally I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.
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The great secret of doctors known only to their wives but still hidden from the public is that most things get better by themselves; most things in fact are better in the morning.
You may think the president is all-powerful but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
As I've said many times the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.
I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I travel and I have to make sure the pieces I put into my bag can go with a dress or with shorts or jeans.
One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married we have a ton of fragrance oils and pretty bottles at the bachelorette party. Everyone puts a drop or two in a bottle for the bride and makes a wish and the bride wears our creation on her wedding day.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover through the detours of art those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
The plainer the dress the greater luster does beauty appear.
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind such as cars that won't start.
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal and I never loved any other man as much.
Death is always around the corner but often our society gives it inordinate help.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors officials the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Be grateful for the home you have knowing that at this moment all you have is all you need.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe wings to the mind flight to the imagination and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Nothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
I don't want to be perfect but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.
There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean this is not just baby gloom.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives their creativity.
Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Music has always been my protection against the world from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.