Thomas Wol

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.

The people change, the common denominator is you.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words… the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.