Archives - March 2005

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

Maybe it's bred in the bone, but the sound of pipes is a little bit of heaven to some of us.

Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when they're winning?

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.

There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Failure is not reaching your goal, but in having no goal to reach.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.