There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.
One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
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