Archives - March 2002

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

People attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

You can never be great at anything unless you love it.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long shot.

My mother viewed speaking impeccably proper English as a strategy in the overall battle for civil rights.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.

Obstacles are those frightful things we see when we take our eyes off our goal.

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.

Success is focusing the full power of all you are one what you have a burning desire to achieve.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

An Irishman needs three things: silence, cunning and exile.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a huge granite mountain cannot be denied--it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Before the beginning of great brilliance and beauty there first must be a period of complete chaos.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give ;yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting.