Instead of a Seeing Eye dog, what about a gun It's cheaper than a dog, plus if you walk around shooting all the time people are going to get out of the way. Cars, too
Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations'
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart, not the head.
A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.
When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.
Wildness. We're running out of it, even up in Alaska. People need to be reminded that the world is unsafe and unpredictable, and at a moment's notice, they could lose everything, like that. I do it to remind them that chaos is always out there, lurking beyond the horizon. That, plus, sometimes you have to do something bad, just to know you're alive.
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons...
Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.