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“Become who you are!”

“Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.”

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”

“The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.”

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”

“It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.”

“I am a part of everything that I have read.”

“The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”

“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”

“But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition”

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”

“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?”

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

“No doubt the reason is that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

“I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.”

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”

“We pretend to be strong because we are weak.”

“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”

“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”

“Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?”

“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”

“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.”

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”

“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.”

“Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.”

“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”

“Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?”

“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”

“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble”

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”

“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”

“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”

“Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.”

“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”

“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”

“The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.”

“This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.”

“Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.”

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.”
Casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat hamus Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit.

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”

“Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.”

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

“Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.”

“Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.”

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

“The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.”

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”

“When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to hear '27 months.' 'He's two' will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place.”

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”

“The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so, in a way, there's nothing to dread.”

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be…”

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”

“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”

“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”

“We all shine on… like the moon and the stars and the sun… we all shine on… come on and on and on…”

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”

“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.”

“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”

“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”

“Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.”

“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.”

“A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.”

“Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”

“I am not bound to please thee with my answers.”

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”

“If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.”

“Only the shallow know themselves.”

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”

“Words make love with one another.”

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”

“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”