An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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.
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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.
There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.
When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.
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