There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the perfect falsehood of any supposed theory or observation. It should carefully weigh the chances of truth and error and...
Wherefore is there ice and snow, chilling winds and bitter nights? Is it to mock the earth for its sunshine? No, not so! We forget that sunlight is impossible without shadows; that for every day there is a night; that for every joy there is a pain; t...
Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with th...
I find writing for children much easier. I don't mean it's less demanding - you've got to have a talent for it and you've got to work very hard - but you don't have to pull your guts out and lay them on the line in quite the same way as when you're w...
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's l...
One day of hunger is not starvation.
If it's not one thing it's another.
One is born, one dies; the land grows.
The less one thinks, the more one speaks.
No one is unhappier than the one who believes in happiness.
Those who are at one regarding food are at one in life.
One does not go to Tula with one's own samovar.
One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.
The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven’t.
One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.
What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.
The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.
