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Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

In the heating and air conditioning trade, the point on the thermostat in which neither heating nor cooling must operate-around 72 degrees-is called the "Comfort Zone." It's also known as the "Dead Zone.".

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without eror, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crisis. There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?.

Love without attachment is light.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.