Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.
People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.
Most of us don’t invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
So I would choose to be with you, That's if the choice were mine to make, But you can make decisions too, And you can have this heart to break
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun.
There might be very primitive life in our solar system—single-cell animals, that sort of thing.
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.