Monkey see, monkey do.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our world.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have lived just the length of it. I want to have
lived the width of it as well.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is not seat for him, he tells you not to worry
because he has brought his own stool.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you
just take the girl’s clothes off.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein. It rejects it.

Living is like working out one long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals, you
will never find the right answer.

Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while, then a layer of scum floats to the
top.

One recognizes one’s course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else, you are
the one who gets burned.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning like your
watch, in a private pocket. Do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire. Not too near, lest he burn. Not too far
off, lest he freeze.

Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

Both happiness and love are butterflies, which when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which
if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are
moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against
it. Though we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

In matters of principle, stand like a rock. In matters of taste, swim with the current.

I would be rather ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze
than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in
magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to
exist.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

It’s a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let particles run
the other way.

He who has more learning than good deeds is like a tree with many branches but weak roots. The
first great storm will throw it to the ground. He whose good works are greater than his knowledge is
like a tree with fewer branches but with strong and spreading roots. A tree which all the winds of
heaven cannot uproot.

We must cultivate our garden. Nutrients must be added and weeds must be picked.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle or the mirrror that reflects it.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be
ready for an unforeseen attack. In dancing, an affair where things go well if one only learns the
necessary steps and keeps in time with the music.

What is not good for the hive is not good for the bee.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of
himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

A man is a kind of inverted thermometer, the bulb uppermost, and the column of self-valuation is all
the time going up and down. We boil at different degrees.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good
general because he has plenty of soldiers.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the
spot where the crack was.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of
aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

The world is ... a kind of spiritual kindergarten, where millions of bewildered infants are trying to
spell God with the wrong blocks.
To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like
supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops
snowing.

Mothers, food, love and career are the four major guilt groups.

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don’t bite everybody.

We are all but sailboats on the river of life, and money is the wind.With enough money, you can get
blown anywhere.

Making fun of a born-again Christian is like hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope.

The United States is like the guy at the party