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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope. 
Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples. 
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? 
Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least. 
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. 
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting 
It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. 
Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it 
Always direct your thoughts to those truths that will give you confidence, hope, joy, love, thanksgiving, and turn away your mind from those that inspire you with fear, sadness, depression. 
There's a lot happening in many of us. I think you have to celebrate every part. It's what you are. You have to try to find all of those secret names 
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts 
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right.... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep 
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success? 
Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction 
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. 
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. 
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. 
Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people. 
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. 
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls 
Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose 
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. 
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. 
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. 
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. 
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity. 
The longer math lives the more abstract and therefore, possibly also the more practical it becomes. 
If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends 
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. 
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves 
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. 
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. 
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. 
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. 
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. 
Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. 
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. 
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'. 
Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching. 
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. 
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. 
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first. 
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it. 
