Robert

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

The best things in life are nearest Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

There is so much good in the worst of us, an so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.

Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children who has filled his niche and accomplished his task who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

You cannot run away from a weakness you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand

I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

If you can laugh together, you can work together.

Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Never raise your hand to your children it leaves your midsection unprotected.

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Penny wise, pound foolish.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.

There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Ae fond kiss, and then we severA farewell, and then foreverDeep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves himMe, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley.

The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creatureBut still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid featureYet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended.

Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.

The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not'NB This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise ... the bleeding will not end.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation-and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it ... I thought it would be me.

Some men see things as they are and say why I dream things that never were and say Why not

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Motherhood All love begins and ends there.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid

To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

What's a man's age He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Grow old along with me the best is yet to be.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

Partying is such sweet sorrow.

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score Then to that twenty, add a hundred more A thousand to that hundred so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Times is still a-flying And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

If you are not leaning, no one will let you down.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost 100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I --I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleepAnd miles to go before I sleep.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life it goes on.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

The best way out is always through.

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

The only way round is through.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found out it was ourselves.

Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season.

You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings-there are no such things.

Anything more than the truth would be too much.

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.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against with.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.

I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

'Humph' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he.

A Libertarian Movement slogan

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Theology is never any help it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

A motion to adjourn is always in order.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't play, you can't win.

Real art is without irony. Irony distances the author from his material. Irony is a product of something. It's not the reason for doing something. Irony is a cheap shot.

To play it safe is not to play.

It a letter contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.

We were so close to being one of the actual victems. It makes you feel humble.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

I do most of my work sitting down that's where I shine.

A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. My answer is 'Don't you wish you knew'

The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedence, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

Nature gave men two ends -- one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humaneness.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar.

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them.

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow.

One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.

Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone...I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination...they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building--steadily building.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

A man's best friends are his ten fingers.

It's not the situation... It's your reaction to the situation.

As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog fewer when pursued by a mad woman only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.

At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say. (on his wife Elizabeth, president of the American Red Cross)

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon-See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.

When it's all over, it's not who you were. . . it's whether you made a difference.

If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.

If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

Good leaders must first become good servants.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

What happens when the future has come and gone

Free advice is worth the price.

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

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.

One man's religion is another man's belly laugh.

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate--and quickly.

The stars incline, but do not impel.

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

Why do we love the sea It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

The triumph of justice is the only peace.

In nature there are neither rewards not punishments--there are consequences.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dungeon.

Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment-it is a result.

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.

Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams.

The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in.

You can't win at everything, but you can laugh at everything.

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.

You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.

The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Failure is a path, not a destination.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If motivation is too strong the person is blinded if the objective situation is too tightly structured, the person sees none of its alternative possibilities.

If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this enjoy it but never quite believe it.

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.

Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

Nothing got him angrier than when people implied he was paranoid. It made him feel persecuted.

Knowing that everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying of the light -- that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense of futility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You can still be aware of it but find a place for it where you can actually exist comfortably and enjoy things.

It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are throughout persuaded of each other's worth.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

If you would be pungent, be brief for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. A man's identity is not best thought of as the way in which he is separated from his fellows but the way in which he is united with them.

When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.

Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun.

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

I have seen the future and it doesn't work.

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.

A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.

I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.

Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.

Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don't betray them.

If you look good and dress well, you don't need a purpose in life.

If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes.

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Honor does not have to be defended.

How do you define God Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Ah the clock is always slow It is later than you think.

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

There are too many people, and too few human beings.