A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.
Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.
I find Donald Trump so haphazard, and that keeps me up at night.
If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time.
Not eating meat really keeps me trim. . . . meat, and what's usually served with it, is a big calorie packer.
We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
To prevent wars, people must criticize, in their own country, the abuses that occur in their own country. The role taboos play in the preparation for war. The number of shameful secrets keeps growing incessantly, boundlessly. How meaningless all censorship taboos become, and how meaningless the consequences for overstepping them, when your life is in danger.
Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.
Every time I see a coin on the street, I stop, pick it up, put it into my pocket, and say out loud "Thank you, God, for this symbol of abundance that keeps flowing into my life" Never once have I asked, "Why only a penny, God? You know I need a lot more than that. "
Who I am really keeps surprising me.
Comedy keeps the heart sweet.
Religion keeps society divided. Spirituality unites it.
Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.
The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.
The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.
Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself