I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
My head rang like a gong.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
A smiling face is half the meal.
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