You can do anything…but before you can do anything, you have to do something.
Sometimes, if your opponent is determined to win the battle, let him win the wrong battle.
Regarding war and peace—the seed of each is planted in the other.
Regarding war and peace—the seeds of each are planted in the other.
All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.
We live in an age of equivocal competency: if you want, you can be a competent dictator, a competent self-promoter, a competent terrorist. Just because you can do something well does not mean you should be doing it.
We recognize authority based on whether we feel we could attain authority by the rules by which the authority was obtained.
Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control.
Note from Alien cookbook: “The more intelligent the human is, the better it tastes.
Just because you say you will do something does not mean that you are also willing to do that thing. Ensuring that both things are true is especially important in the matter of either making or receiving a proposal of marriage.
If you can’t be brave in the face of adversity, at least be practical.
Amazing how too much passion in one part of your life can destroy passion in other parts of your life.
If someone tells you that they’re called “blueberries” because they’re berries and they’re blue—believe them.
Sex can be the result of love, but never the cause of it.
Some people say I raised a good child. I like to think of it as my child raised a good parent.
A psychologist’s job (if it’s done well) is to get you to seriously laugh at yourself.
There’s no arguing with a song that writes itself.
You have to know you don’t know before you can know.
It is more important to understand the book you are reading than to finish the book you are reading.
Chronic problems tend to come from chronic habits.
The tyrant’s formula for every genocide since the beginning of time: differentiate, divide, destroy.
When someone apologizes to you, be sure you know whether they’re sorry, or just scared.
Eating healthy is not so much about what you eat, but what you don’t eat.
Humility and competence are the keys to a successful life.
My philosophy of life: “Don’t just sit around doing nothing and wasting your time—get off your butt and start doing something and wasting your time.
As I get older I find it more and more easy to watch a pot until it boils.
There is no reason to assume our species will survive itself.
In any career, there is a moment when you are no longer need to be pushed up from below, but rather pulled up from above. Know when that moment comes and adjust your strategy accordingly.
Don’t think for a moment that you’ve gotta be perfect to be paid.
Two examples of irony:…a cheap knock-off of a Chinese Ming vase…made in China….getting murdered in a graveyard.
Just because something is ubiquitous does not mean that it is innocuous.
Observing stupidity in others is a sure sign of stupidity in the observer.
You are not a better or wiser person simply because you’ve ceased to care.
Don’t ask a yes or no question unless the person being asked can say no without hesitation.
People usually have to be dragged kicking and screaming into what’s good for them.
His problem is that he doesn’t want anyone until he can have anyone he wants.