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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Only the insecure strive for security.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don't believe in themselves.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.