Archives - September 2005

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Never exaggerate your faults; your friends will attend to that.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

It's okay to let yourself go, just as long as you let yourself back.

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

I am not educated nor am I an expert in any particular field. But I am sincere and my sincerity is my credentials.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.