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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. 
Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. 
I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it. 
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. 
Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow 
If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's ok. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot. 
Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. 
The greatest stories are those that resonate our beginnings and intuit our endings, our mysterious origins and our numinous destinies, and dissolve them both into one 
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible 
A simple celebration, a gathering of friends; here is wishing you great happiness, a joy that never ends. 
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare. 
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. 
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength 
Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul. 
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind 
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it 
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. 
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. 
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. 
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. 
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. 
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven?t planted 
What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things. 
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place 
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter 
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. 
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. 
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. 
The longer math lives the more abstract and therefore, possibly also the more practical it becomes. 
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved 
The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing. 
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. 
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. 
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. 
Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door. 
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. 
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means 
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. 
I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe. 
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. 
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. 
The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit. 
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. 
Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God. 
Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard. 
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. 
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. 
Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. 
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they?ll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced. 
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. 
A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing. 
