Sind sie vorbestraft? Du lieber Himmel ich wußte gar nicht, dass das immer noch nötig ist." Britischer Witz über die Einreise nach Australien
Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.
It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.
Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?
Out of this city marched armies that seemed to be great, and afterwards were when glory had magnified them. As the years went by, an occasional soldier returned, and with a foreign trace to his speech, told tales of what had happened to him in places...
Wisdom brings a wholeness which understands its own ignorance. Someone with a little knowledge denies this, but those who study their lives long and diligently know they do not know anything.
We're professionals. People make deals, they need to stick to them. That's the way it works, if it's going to work at all.
Don't panic. Say, Hey, no problem. Run a hand through your hair like the whiteboys do even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.
An unedited manuscript is a first draft of story; but is not a finished product. Too many writers study the craft of writing but do not acquire the skills of an editor.
The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal me...
Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else.
Life is Too Short and Memories Are Forever!
It's a great country: you can say whatever you like so long as it is strictly true--nobody will ever take you seriously.
Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
Together, they at once dodged those parts of themselves and magnified them, making for enigmatic harmony and anarchy.
Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.
Anger keeps us down and hinders from moving forward.
Anger keeps us down and hinders us from moving forward. Its power is strengthened by our longing for justice.
It's one thing to think you're worthless, and quite another for somebody else to tell you that you are.
