Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
Our favorite holding period is forever.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
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