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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. It's kind of fun to do the impossible. Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you. Not because they are nice, but because you are. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you. Not because they are nice, but because you are. Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle; rather a great reminder of just how strong true love can be. You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love. The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. The Babylon project was our last, best hope for peace. .. It failed .. But in the year of the Shadow war it became something greater: our last, best hope .. for victory. The year is 2260, the place: Babylon 5.A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. No elected body is the country, we are the country. You and me. Us. It can only stay that way as long as we care to keep it so. A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Who so loves believes the impossible. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. We have art to save ourselves from the truth. Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. Those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberties for a little order, will lose both and deserve neither. All right, Brain, I don't like you and you don't like me -- so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer. This book fills a much-needed gap. Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. Dancing is silent poetry. When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. I would have made a good Pope. Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. You can widen your life by yourself, but to deepen it you need a friend. Dancing is silent poetry. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Hope is like a road in the country: there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. What lies behind us and what lies before us, are only small matters compared to what lies within us. Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a ... brain operation. Logic is in the eye of the logician.Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. What do you take me for, an idiot? When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle; rather a great reminder of just how strong true love can be. All right, Brain, I don't like you and you don't like me -- so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer. You can widen your life by yourself, but to deepen it you need a friend. When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being opened, the marvels or the abysses that it contains, or the line that seems to have been written for me alone. In this respect the writer is not different from any other human being: whatever we say or do can have far-reaching consequences. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
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