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.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
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.
One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
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.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
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