When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Charlie Chaplin
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.
Ralph Chaplin
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
George Chapman
Pure innovation is more gross than error.
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
Danger, the spur of all great minds.
I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from non-successful ones is perseverance.
Steve Jobs, Jobs quote from 1995
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out whatÂ’s next.
Steve Jobs
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Ch.
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding—joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.
Jane Austen, The narrator, in No
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Lorraine Hansberry
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
Ray Bradbury
Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumstances, defeated by other peoples’ natures and wrong-doings, defeated by the down-drag of the flesh, defeated by loss, by pain, by suffering, by worry. Instead of saying with confidence, “This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith”, they have to say in honesty, “This is the defeat that has been caused by the world, even our self-centeredness.” That is the opposite of faith. Unbelief is not the opposite of faith; self-centeredness is – being centered in self rather than in God.
Samuel M. Shoemaker, Extraordina
If you cannot be grateful for what you have received, then be thankful for what you have been spared.
Yiddish Proverb
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
W. R. [William Ralph] Inge
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
There are no rewards or punishments -- only consequences.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.
Robert G. Ingersoll
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
Michael Korda
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
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