An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.
Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards a false beautiful form, thinking that he can obtain real happiness, and gets burnt up in the fire of lust.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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