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Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.

On what is valuable thieves and the law agree.

What I'm not changes more than what I am.

Patience is decisive indecision.

Greater than the temptations of beauty are those of method.

Value yourself according to the burdens you carry, and you will find everything a burden.

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

There are crimes I don't commit mainly because I don't want to find out I could.

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.

The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time.

I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.

The procrastinator dreads beginning, the workaholic, ending.

Impatience is not wanting to understand that you don't understand.

The best way to get people to do what you want is not to be too particular about what you want.

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.

Those who are too slow to be intelligent deserve our patience, those who are too quick, our pity.

Happiness is the readiness to be happy.

Beware of knowing your virtues; you may lose them. Beware of knowing your vices; you may forgive them.

Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for.

It's amazing that I sit at my job all day and no one sees me clearly enough to say What is that boy doing behind a desk?

The road reaches every place, the short cut only one.

There are silences harder to take back than words.

The drives were nature's first provision: thinking was added later, to get us around the world's obstacles to them.

Anger has been ready to be angry.

The god of many cannot remain the true god.

As for my writing. I like it enough to keep going. I dislike it enough to keep going

Your choices: spend, and believe in things; save, and believe in money.

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

How often feelings are circular. How embarrassing to be embarrassed. How annoying to be annoyed.

The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn't.

Seizing on a piece of business, I become tiny, eager, efficient: roiled water I cannot see into.

So many times I've made myself stupid with the fear of being outsmarted.

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

I'm sitting here bored, ... trying to remember that everything is a complete mystery.

I am not unambitious. I am just too ambitious for what you call ambitions.

What is more yours than what always holds you back?

Happiness, like water, is always available, but so often it seems we'd prefer a different drink.

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

Easier to keep changing your life than to live it.

The first abuse of power is not realizing that you have it.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?

God help my neighbors if I loved them as I love myself.

I'll buy that means also I believe it.

There is no road to the land without roads.

If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks.

Water deepens where it has to wait.

I worked so hard to understand it that it must be true.

If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

To condemn your sin in another is hypocrisy. Not to condemn is to reserve your right to sin.

How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees.

Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren't hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love.

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

To practice Sincerity is to burden everyone else with believing you.

A belief is a question we have put aside so we can get on with what we believe we have to do.

Judging itself brings the pain of being judged. The wicked judge mistakes this for another crime of the accused and lengthens his sentence.

I'm a kid checking mail, a kid on his cell with his questions:
are we in love, Life, are we exclusive, are we forever?

Solitude takes time. One becomes alone, like a towel drying.

The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.

Think of all the smart people made stupid by flaws of character. The finest watch isn't fine long when used as a hammer.

I don't know what's meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

If I do not waste time, I am wasting my time.

I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does.

Nothing important comes with instructions.

Too much apology doubles the offense.

A day is only a day. But a life is only a life.

To know, you just have to know. To believe, you have to make others believe.

That others know: science. That others choose: politics.

Let me have my dreams but not what I dream of.

You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.