Archives - June 2019

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.

Never trust a skinny ice cream man.

The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.

They indeed are fools who are satisfied with the fruits of their past effort and do not engage themselves in self-effort now.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.

Remember folks, street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. 

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions --- especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

"Healing," Papa would tell me, "is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature."

Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.