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He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.
There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.
These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.
True love is like religion. It is full of devotion and free of doubt.
Energy is the inherent capacity of the universe to make matter exist.
Uncertainty causes more anxiety than perhaps any other single factor.
These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.
The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.
We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.
Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.
A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.
There are many, many people who have lost 100 pounds and kept it off.
Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.
An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.
There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.
The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.
The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.
I don't feel like I have a normal day if I don't exercise or work out.
Voters, I think, in many ways, have begun to really reject the system.
We're not out holding fundraisers in the Hamptons or in Beverly Hills.
I think, as a white person, I do not want to speak for a black person.
The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.
The ultimate philosophical challenge is to reveal the ontology of God.
I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Everyone who goes to a job he doesn't like is a lot weirder than I am.
It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.
Essiac is a therapeutic tea that all cancer patients can benefit from.