"You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat."
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"Don't let your habits become handcuffs"
"I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back."
"Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them."
"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
"العلم يكتشف أما الفن فيبدع. إن ضوء النجم البعيد الذي إكتشفه العلم كان موجودا قبل إكتشافه, أما الضوء الذي يلقيه الفن علينا ، فقد أبدعه الفن بنفسه في اللحظة نفسها."
"Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time."
"God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain."
"Sleep frees our imaginations from the confines of its imprisonment. Last night I dreamt of penguins"
"What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty."
"Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try."
"To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success."
"The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule."
"In high school I used to write my love notes backwards, so she'd have to flip the paper upside-down to read it. Either that or read it in a mirror, so she can see herself as I see her, and see why I admire her."
"Miracle [10w] The greatest unacknowledged miracle is man has lasted this long."
"Love is a flower that grows in the garden of mind if we treat it with kindness, compassion, and joy."
"You don't seem mad at all,' she said.But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?"
"Exactly. How can you know it makes you happy if you’ve never experienced it?”“There are different kinds of happy,” she said. “Some kinds don’t need any proof."
"Why then should witless man so much misweeneThat nothing is but that which he hath seene?"
"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."
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