The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.
I've split my life between a few different disciplines.
If your shirt isn't tucked into your pants, then your pants are tucked into your shirt.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.
Always maintain the attitude of a student. If you think you've done learning, bitterness sets in, but if you have more to achieve every day, in any arena, that makes each morning's awakening full of potential and cheery portent.
Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.
Technically, we're all half centaur.
When in company with literary women, make no allusions to 'learned ladies,' or 'blue stockings,' or express surprise that they should have any knowledge of housewifery, or needle-work, or dress; or that they are able to talk on 'common things. ' It is rude and foolish and shows that you really know nothing about them, either as a class or as individuals.
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?
'The Social Network' was probably one of the two or three things I've done in my life that I'm most proud of. I'm not going to engage in what about it was disappointing. There's nothing about it I was disappointed in.