Avoid Quotes

Make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I used to follow a practice - somewhat contrived, I admit - to write the man's name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk, and say to myself: "That finishes the incident, and so far as I'm concerned, that fellow." The drawer became over the years a sort of private wastebasket for crumbled-up spite and discarded personalities.

In this connection, I should mention our enormous national debt. We must begin to make some payments on it if we are to avoid passing on to our children an impossible burden of debt.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

I've managed to avoid tattoos so far.

Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it!

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.