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In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

Health food makes me sick.

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.

If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

Health food makes me sick.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Health food makes me sick.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

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.

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.

"I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

I am just going outside and may be some time.

I am just going outside and may be some time.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.

There are no office hours for leaders.

Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove.

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

The noblest of men deserves not the weakest of women.

The test and use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

The key to your universe is that you can choose.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble.

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.