Archives - October 2004

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs...one step at a time.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

The young always have the same problem --- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong --- or absolutely right.

The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.