You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.
The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
There have been many Presidents of the United States and the roll will be indefinitely extended. We have had a number of brilliant soldiers, but only one great general.
As for food, half of my friends have dug their graves with their teeth.
If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.
I mean, sometimes. . . a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.
The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.
One of the glorious things about being a person in the world is that you don't have to worry about whether or not someone else is trying to be creepy.
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.