A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
The way I see it you should live everyday like its your birthday.
I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.
Beyond reducing individual use one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.
Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
If your house is burning wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination nature is imagination itself.
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
What is important in life is life and not the result of life.
If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed clothed given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.
We love but once for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
Keywords : repression
137 years later Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
We have three cats. It's like having children but there is no tuition involved.
I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking letting yourself go.
Like most people my age my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I'm constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes that's it.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did which was work in an office.
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
The dreamer can know no truth not even about his dream except by awaking out of it.
Equality may perhaps be a right but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Every year during their High Holy Days the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
The art of leadership is saying no not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Can miles truly separate you from friends If you want to be with someone you love aren't you already there?
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
I'm doing 'Les Miserables' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like 'Come on let's do a moviemusical.'
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Cats know how to obtain food without labor shelter without confinement and love without penalties.
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions but you really climb for the hell of it.
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
When more and more people are thrown out of work unemployment results.
To be happy we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.
It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
To my surprise my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours I must look her straight in the eyes.
Good buildings come from good people ad all problems are solved by good design.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Healing is a matter of time but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Love begins at home and it is not how much we do but how much love we put in that action.
I look for what needs to be done. After all that's how the universe designs itself.
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
Love him or hate him Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
If you only have a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail.
I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
When you want a break from dogs and you take them to the kennel to the stars no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!
I never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try at age 65!
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes but you don't change at all. And that of course causes great confusion.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No what the artist needs is loneliness.
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down wrote this song and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
I inherited that calm from my father who was a farmer. You sow you wait for good or bad weather you harvest but working is something you always need to do.
Design is not making beauty beauty emerges from selection affinities integration love.
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
In everyone's life at some time our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
The minute anyone's getting anxious I say You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours kindle it at home communicate it to others and it becomes the property of all.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
If money was my only motivation I would organize myself differently.
It is cruel you know that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax and float.
Be true to your work your word and your friend.
The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.
Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking.
I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
If you're in a bad situation don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation don't worry it'll change.
The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.
Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high simple and useful life.
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Success is that old ABC - ability breaks and courage.
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
I wanted to be a teacher. I love children so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven when I opened my mouth and said 'Oh God what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.
There's no such thing as old age there is only sorrow.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.
Without change something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
No advance in wealth no softening of manners no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
When trouble comes it's your family that supports you.
I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.
She is a friend of mind. She gather me man. The pieces I am she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good you know when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. And if it stops moving subsidize it.
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week the minimum wage family leave health insurance Social Security Medicare retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Everywhere in the world music enhances a hall with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism generally.
Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns the rattle of musketry the strange mournful mutter of the battlefield.
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams what's left?
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
A face to lose youth for to occupy age With the dream of meet death with.
The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is what romance is and what a relationship means.
As all human beings are in my view creatures of God's design we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions but indeed I respect them as human beings.
Some people will never learn anything for this reason because they understand everything too soon.
You see Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa and if we're honest conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
After a century of striving after a year of debate after a historic vote health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.
There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities so absolutely terrifying that even man the fighter who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death will be appalled and so abandon war forever.
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
A woman should be home with the children building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly music is like the ocean and the instruments are little or bigger islands very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Well my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.
Painting n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Since we cannot change reality let us change the eyes which see reality.
Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart Pam Anderson and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.
The principle of the design - the harmony rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
I read Shakespeare and the Bible and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father meeting my husband and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
So long as you have food in your mouth you have solved all questions for the time being.
Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like I'm sorry you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went Oh forget it.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy healthy and prosperous being; and happiness health and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
Comedy we may say is society protecting itself - with a smile.
If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business because we'd be cynical. Well that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again this time more intelligently.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty then another for the next thirty years.
This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty you've had it in this country.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there I go to work.
I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Humor distorts nothing and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
I choose my friends for their good looks my acquaintances for their good characters and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Potentially a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message an advent of sense.
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
When freedom does not have a purpose when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women when it does not listen to the voice of conscience it turns against humanity and society.
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude not looks. Most men think it's looks most women know otherwise.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
I realized my family was funny because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
I thank you God for this most amazing day for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.
Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.
People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
Skill is the unified force of experience intellect and passion in their operation.
Like all my family and class I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet but maybe one day.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins or nearly all save those worth committing.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and instead only give legal status to civil unions.
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace or peace an interlude during war.
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
Just as we could have rode into the sunset along came the Internet and it tripled the significance of the PC.
You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked you didn't crash you didn't throw up you weren't late you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
From as long as literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns word jokes I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes cry rant and rave and at the sound of the bell simmer down and go about business as usual.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground secretly making the ground green.
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation from dating to trial by jury.
If I like myself at this weight then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.
I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.
Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.
Down the road I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on and humor.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
When a man opens a car door for his wife it's either a new car or a new wife.
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
If voting changed anything they'd make it illegal.
Winning is habit. Unfortunately so is losing.
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people of adventure of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can only as one who has seen its brutality its futility its stupidity.
I will not say that women have no character; rather they have a new one every day.
Age is something that doesn't matter unless you are a cheese.
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.
Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.
Our Age of Anxiety is in great part the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
I hate to mention age but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
Beauty n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
When I write software I know that it will fail either due to my own mistake or due to some other cause.
I have never killed a man but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.
If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys another sells and both think they are astute.
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve I might as well starve where the food is good.
When I was a graduate student the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
Be smarter than other people just don't tell them so.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
If you have a particular faith or religion that is good. But you can survive without it.
I always turn to the sports pages first which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.
I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.
Women want mediocre men and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues and politics itself is a mass of lies evasions folly hatred and schizophrenia.
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other and both together make up one whole.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful for beauty is God's handwriting.
Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
A dying man needs to die as a sleepy man needs to sleep and there comes a time when it is wrong as well as useless to resist.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
Faithful women are all alike they think only of their fidelity never of their husbands.
My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
So many people try to grow up too fast and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to our tasks to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
Before anything else we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth justice freedom and reason.
Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.
So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.
It doesn't matter what color sex religion age sexual orientation etc. everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
We demand privacy yet we glorify those that break into computers.
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Their diet is basically boiled vegetables fish and rice. No fat no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.
No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
Before the throne of the Almighty man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again what is soiled is made clean again.
How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face you should go home and examine your conscience.
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.
Getting married for me was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release that we have something more important than our separate selves and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
Because beauty isn't enough there must be something more.
The automobile engine will come and then I will consider my life's work complete.
Globalization as defined by rich people like us is a very nice thing you are talking about the Internet you are talking about cell phones you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Since the day of my birth my death began its walk. It is walking toward me without hurrying.
Deep into that darkness peering long I stood there wondering fearing doubting dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.
Food love career and mothers the four major guilt groups.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does I guess you do have a problem.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
When we remember we are all mad the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
For every good reason there is to lie there is a better reason to tell the truth.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education academia the service industry arts publishing theater politics fashion finance as well as movie-making.
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy substance abuse and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Right up until the time I retired at age 37 I felt like there were still things that I could do better.
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt but people die in plane crashes lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die some get hurt some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality it takes an awful lot of determination dedication self-discipline and effort.
Faith is not belief without proof but trust without reservation.
The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
Flowers always make people better happier and more helpful; they are sunshine food and medicine for the soul.
To raise new questions new possibilities to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
When I hear somebody sigh 'Life is hard' I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'
The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy they're fun they do things together they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom they're going to respect Mom.
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
In science "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in and it will come naturally.
If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective nurturing bonding parents.
I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event and the only way to understand it was to write about it.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work ask him: 'Whose?'
It were a real increase of human happiness could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings till they emerged sadder and wiser at the age of twenty-five.
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry in painting and in music.
My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.