Quotes from Marty Rubin

There are no simple solutions to imaginary problems.

If the light's not in you, you're in the dark.

If you can abuse your power you have too much.

A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else.

There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Envy expresses itself through condemnation. The louder the condemnation the greater the envy.

Religion, culture, education are all things that sound wonderful in theory. In practice, however, they are not so wonderful.

Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge.

To know oneself means above all to know what one likes

Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches.

After one has read everything and thought everything, one still have everything to learn.

The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do.

Intuition: the feeling you know something when you know nothing.

One learns by doing, not by learning to do.

A scale can tell what a body weighs, but not its value.

I still find the moon more amazing than the fact men have walked on it.

The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: emotion. Emotion is the poetry of life.

It's not the wound that teaches, but the healing.

Nothing succeeds like indifference to success.

Too much success spoils success.

Success in love is mostly luck, though we hate to admit.

We let life down: it doesn't let us down.

Success in politics is the art of the timely lie.