We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
If the camel once gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow.
Never lend booksânobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
The mind commands the body and the body obeys. The mind commands itself and finds resistance.
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body is different.
We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.