Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long after he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money - but long on hugs. A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.Who so loves believes the impossible. Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it. A witty saying proves nothing. Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. Don't be so humble - you are not that great. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier. What do you take me for, an idiot? Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. The Babylon project was our last, best hope for peace. .. It failed. .. But in the year of the Shadow war it became something greater: our last, best hope .. for victory. The year is 2260, the place: Babylon 5.There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long after he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money - but long on hugs. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. Wit is educated insolence. Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. I would have made a good Pope. Love is the energy of the soul. Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot be healed by love. There is nothing but love. What lies behind us and what lies before us, are only small matters compared to what lies within us. Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. Luck is the residue of design. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a ... brain operation. Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle; rather a great reminder of just how strong true love can be. Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. When love is not madness, it is not love. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a shp, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. If you are going through hell, keep going. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. It's not that chocolates are a substitute for love. Love is a substitute for chocolate. Chocolate is, let's face it, far more reliable than a man. Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. Love is the energy of the soul. Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot be healed by love. There is nothing but love. In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains. Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. You can widen your life by yourself, but to deepen it you need a friend. Each encounter that becomes a friendship turns into a lifeline. One can never have too many, only too many to properly take care of. Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. A witty saying proves nothing. Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.