Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Where facts are few, experts are many.

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

To try to be better is to be better.

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

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.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

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.

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

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.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

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.

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.