On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.
A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.
A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.
What I can't understand is why you invoke improbability and yet you will not admit that you're shooting yourself in the foot by postulating something just as improbable, magicking into existence the word God.
Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions. ' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs.
In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state of mind or plane of being may have.
Life itself is your proper meal.