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"There’s a vastness here and I believe that the people who are born here breathe that vastness into their soul. They dream big dreams and think big thoughts, because there is nothing to hem them in."
"A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could."
"I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it."
"Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing."
"I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world."
"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them."
"A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties."
"What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle all important questions, but tell me, dear, isn't it because you're young, because you haven't had time to suffer till you settled a single one of your questions? You boldly look forward, isn't it because you cannot foresee or expect anything terrible, because so far life has been hidden from your young eyes? You are bolder, more honest, deeper than we are, but think only, be just a little magnanimous, and have mercy on me."
"It is not that I think or believe, but that I know."
"People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows."
"Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me."
"Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it"
"If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it."
"The mind is made up by what it feeds upon."
"Without execution, thinking is mere idleness."
"Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech"
"As to the aridity you are suffering from, it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong: He wants to test you and see if you love Him as much at times of aridity as when He sends you consolations. I think this is a very great favor for God to show you."
"Whatever you consistently think about and focus upon you move toward."
"Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup - if any."
"A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke."
