One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

I’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

An author writes a book, and that’s the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Our best thoughts come from others.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

You can stroke people with words.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.