It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, "Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion. read more

• Thought Beware Open Mindedness Often Say Everything Permissible Except Sharp Opinion

My next house will have not kitchen... just vending machines. read more

• Thought Next House Kitchen Vending Machines

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you ... never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. read more

• Thought Get Tight Place Everything Goes Against Give Up for Time Tide Turn

I might not be there when you want me. But I"ll always be there when you need me. read more

• Thought Might Want Need

The man who says his wife can"t take a joke, forgets that she took him. read more

• Thought Man Says Wife Take Joke Forgets Took

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. read more

• Thought Every Intense Desire Perhaps Different from What

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The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood. read more

• Thought Self Styled Intellectual Impotent Pen Ink Hungers Write History Sword Blood

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches. read more

• Knowledge Chemistry Dissatisfaction Some Marvelously Potent Tar Building Stones Explosives Stimulants Poisons Opiates Perfumes Stenches

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor. read more

• Thought Sometimes Feel Loss Prejudice Vigor

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. read more

• Thought Awareness Unfulfilled Desires Which Gives Nation Feeling Mission Destiny