Archives - May 2005

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

I think I've discovered the secret of life --- you just hang around until you get used to it.

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.