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petak, 25.02.2011.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Worries go down better with soup than without.

All the members of our family buy books and read them.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

The doctor asked me to strip to the waist. He examined my lungs, felt my pulse and blood pressure, took my temperature.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

The Iran-contra affair, which broke in late 1986, marred the last years of his tenure, though his vice-president, George H. W. Bush, was nonetheless able to defeat the Democratic nominee, MichaelDukakis, in the 1988 election.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

četvrtak, 02.12.2010.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

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