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Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

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.