Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.
What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."
Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.
Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.
I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally. If your employer criticizes your report, don't take it personally. Instead, find out what's needed and fix it. If your girlfriend laughs at your tie, don't take it personally. Find another tie or find another girlfriend.
Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?
At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.
Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.
Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others.
Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.
I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told.
Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.
An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own
A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read
Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.
Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.
Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
I love having ten times as much stuff to do as I can possibly find time to do. That way, I can pick the one-tenth that I want to do most. But if I only have enough to just occupy all my time, I'm stuck doing all of whatever stuff it happens to be.
My thoughts are like waffles - the first few don't look so good.
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