valentine's week Quotes

Always do what you are afraid to do.

I’ll take a child that has talent and a great mother over a child

that has world class talent and a mother that’s a nut.

All mankind… being all equal and independent,

no one ought to harm another in his life,

health, liberty, or possessions.

I was born for a storm,

and a calm does not suit me.

As an example to others,

and not that I care for moderation myself,

it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep,

and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

If you can't tolerate critics,

don't do anything new or interesting.

Even in our sleep,

pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until,

in our despair, against our will, comes wisdom.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

A man should look for what is,

and not for what he thinks should be.

If the doors of perception were cleansed,

everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.

Curious things,

habits.

People themselves never knew they had them.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.

It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving

an existing one.

Technology is nothing.

What's important is that you have a faith in people,

that they're basically good and smart.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble,

finding it everywhere,

diagnosing it wrongly,

and applying unsuitable remedies.

If I were two faced,

would I be wearing this one?

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Be honest in your art;

authenticity always resonates.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much;

if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

A man watches his pear tree day after day,

impatient for the ripening of the fruit.

Let him attempt to force the process,

and he may spoil both fruit and tree.

But let him patiently wait,

and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Love is not to be purchased and affection has no price.