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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America ever violated an order-not one.

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother

A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.

Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.

Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming."

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.

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.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.