Every Man has the Right to make a Kite from his Pants.
I've long seen failure as a tool, not an outcome.
I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important...
When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to...
it seemed like a great adventure, at least at the start.
SPACES... BREAKS...TO CONTEMPLATE THINGS... TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S IMPORTANT...
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that...
It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.
If this world were an infinite plan and sailing to the East we could always reach new distances and discover sweeter and newer things than all the cyclades or the islands of King Solomon, then the...
I suppose it was a dream that lasted really about fifty years. By the time universal education had begun to work properly, say 1925, and the time the first teachers started to hold back information,...
shambles in her sternum.
The middle of the night fell, and silence prevailed, and the silence covered the houses and the roads, and the lights of the faded lamps spread, as if to comfort the desolation of the trees planted in...
Eating with others was different from just talking to them-it was an act of commitment, a recognition of shared humanity. We all share these physical needs, it said; we are brothers and sisters in our...
you did not look for a winner who would take everything; you found a way of allowing people to save face; you found a way of healing rather than imposing.
Being loved and admired by a man like that-and she knew that this man, this mechanic, this fixer of machines with their broken hearts, did indeed love and admire her-was like walking in the sunshine;...
If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business....
If the AG had been a lightbulb instead of a lawyer, he would have been about a twenty-watt.
The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.
I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!
Josh grins. Just give me your hand.W-what?Your hand, he repeats. Give it to me.I extend my shaking right hand. And-in a moment that is a hundred dreams come true-Joshua Wasserstein laces his fingers...
You can't hold on to water or keep it from leaking away.
I've found my productive-writing-to-screwing-around ratio to be one to seven. So, for every eight hour day of writing, there is only one good productive hour of work being done. The other seven hours...
Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other...
In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'What is it then?'It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but...
I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
..for we all are dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending..
Goals are for losers. Your mind isn't magic. It's a moist computer you can program. The most important metric to track is your personal energy. Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success....
Philippe Ariès, in The Hour of Our Death, points out that the essential characteristic of death as it appears in the Chanson de Roland is that the death, even if sudden or accidental, gives advance...
I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like an old man. The scene I had just witnessed brought back a lot of memories - not of things I had done...
Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba....
Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience.
Sitting in his office, he made a nice mathematical model, and it never occurred to him that what he saw as defects were actually necessities. Look: when I was working on missiles, we dealt with...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
