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The closer one approaches absolute obscurity, the freer and happier one feels.

To the immature, other people are not real.

We must be careful to say the truth with the least offense, but it has to be the truth nonetheless.

You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?

When considering a career move, consider the most important assumptions that have to prove true and how you can swiftly and inexpensively test if they are valid. Also, remain realistic about the path ahead of you.

I'm sitting here with the Mets, and I get to throw out the first pitch. That's one of the coolest things in the world for anybody.

Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they're very strongly pro-traditional family... not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic.

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.

When I think of baths, I generally think of children, the elderly, couples, and the English. Who takes baths? I mean, seriously - none of my friends take baths.

Revolutions are not easy.

When customers asked why Betheen's baking was better than anyone else's, she forced herself to blush and say her kitchen was downwind from Prater Grove; everything had a little orange blossom in it. She did not say, 'Because I'm a chemist, asshole,' though the words always threatened to escape. Women from the Society House wanted folksy comfort. Chemistry - though it kept them alive with their heart pills, made their food sweet, and held their dentures in their mouths - was not desired, not from her.

I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.

It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

I hate wise men because they are lazy, cowardly, and prudent. To the philosophers' equanimity, which makes them indifferent to both pleasure and pain, I prefer devouring passions. The sage knows neither the tragedy of passion, nor the fear of death, nor risk and enthusiasm, nor barbaric, grotesque, or sublime heroism. He talks in proverbs and gives advice. He does not live, feel, desire, wait for anything. He levels down all the incongruities of life and then suffers the consequences. So much more complex is the man who suffers from limitless anxiety. The wise man's life is empty and sterile, for it is free from contradiction and despair. An existence full of irreconcilable contradictions is so much richer and creative. The wise man's resignation springs from inner void, not inner fire. I would rather die of fire than of void.

Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.

You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.