Once you have established the goals you want and the price you’re willing to pay, you can ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure and the temporary failures

Learn from your mistakes and keep moving forward.

Success is earned, not given

You can do what you’ve to do to protect your loved ones.

At the time of the act, a suicidal person may say ‘I love you to their family, maybe, in the form of saying the last goodbye.

Gracia is not able to find a breadcrumb because it was never baked.

Acting is a dance between imagination and reality, and I savor every step

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

From far, from eve and morning
And yon twelve-winded sky,
The stuff of life to knit me
Blew hither; here am I.

We wear out our lives with regrets for the things we didn’t do rather than by the things we did

I feel every person is different with different attitudes I am the kind of person who always takes sympathy just like a normal one.

I believe that the worst sorrows of man’s life lie only in fear and nothing else. And this is what the man must always be aware of in his life.

I still remember that since the time I been taking my slow pilgrimage around the world, I have been observing that it is just growing and gathering that mystery more and more in me.

We met for a reason either you’re a lesson or a blessing.

The greatest lessons in life can be learned on the baseball field.

The diamond is a place where dreams are born and where legends are made.

There’s nothing awful that comes from baseball

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics

Writing is a way of exploring the world and discovering new truths about ourselves and others

The artistic trappings and lecturing of sci-fi I find inadequately convincing

One of the fantasies of Zionism was to be a scaffold. Rather, we are making prohibitions between the East and the West as opposed to making spans; we are adding to the contention between East and West by our inept want to have more.

Voyaging is one articulation of the craving to cross limits.

I don’t feel that when Zionism started, there was a case that we were losing – even to a limited extent – our ability to add to others.

He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.

That’s right,” said Eeyore. “Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself.” “I am,” said Pooh.

What do you say, Pooh?” Pooh opened his eyes with a jerk and said, “Extremely.” “Extremely what?” asked Rabbit. “What you were saying,” said Pooh. “Undoubtable.

Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.

On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.

They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment.

And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.

We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.

You never can tell with bees.

I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.

Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.

Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

How do you spell ‘love’?” – Piglet “You don’t spell it…you feel it.” – Pooh

A tax on salt cod that precipitated the War of Independence

It is in Europe that we are born and bred to a single role. America is populated by second acts, encores and revivals.

So much of the Western tradition deals with the most despairing and angst-ridden emotions, but they’re movies made for kids. It’s as if America was trying to pass on an unpleasant but necessary lesson of life: that you were alone, and you needed to toughen up and shut up

America has always understood that it is defined by what it stands against more than what it stands for.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but NEVER hit softly.

For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.

I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

Learn from it and let it go

If i wouldn’t have done comedy, I would have been a teacher. I was really good when I took an exploratory teaching class in high school, at getting kids’ attention, and delivering lesson plans. Though my principal even told me that this was what I was meant to do. And that being a big-mouth comedian was a waste of time.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.

The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based.

Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don’t harrass them, don’t deprive them of their happiness, don’t work against God’s intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you – alas, it is true of almost every one of us!

There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?

Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.

A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.

The world will be saved by beauty.

I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

From a hundred rabbits you can’t make a horse.

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

Only through sufering can we find ourselves.

The secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

A spectacle … full of so much human truth and with such a fearful lesson.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Who dares to love forever

When love must die

But I have to be sure

When I walk out that door

Oh how I want to be free

Jimi Hendrix is very important. He’s my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

What do I have in common with Jews? I don’t even have anything in common with myself.

Most men are not wicked… They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people

I don’t think that anybody has ever seen the real Frank Zappa because being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It’s two steps removed from the Inquisition

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

One size does not fit all.

I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I’d never run out of nerve. Never

When you do what I do for a living you have to have a positive mental attitude; when that positive mental attitude isn’t enough to get you across that jump you have to be man enough to deal with the circumstances. In my case, I’m man enough.

I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Listen,” I told him. “Don’t be so tough so early in the morning. I’m sure you’ve cut plenty of people’s throats. I haven’t even had my coffee yet.

You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.

Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all true.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

What are you waiting for in order to give up?

You can’t hate up close. Any time you have an opportunity to go talk with someone, the chances of them hating you lessen. So that is a practice we all should adopt.

To read is to let someone else work for you – the most delicate form of exploitation.

The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one’s mind, or to define oneself – there is no wish I make more often.

If you’re unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

He who hates himself is not humble.

By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.

I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.

To live in any sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

How easy it is to be “deep”: all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one’s reach.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.

How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.