Golf is a good walk spoiled.
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words – 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man – the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: – I wasn’t worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world – and never will.
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.
Take the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.
An artist is always alone if he is an artist. What the artist needs is loneliness.
I don’t expect to retire. Every man must work, that’s his natural destiny.
I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… for whatever reason, through whatever circumstance, through whatever he is gone through… that we are each a figment of our own imagination… And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.
And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.
I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find how far one can go.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
The love we were promised in fairy tales was never something for us to find. It has always been something for us to create.
Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.
