Archives - February 2006

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

In the depth of winter I finally learned there was in me invincible summer.

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Reality isn't what it used to be.

Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

Sympathy: Two hearts tugging at one load.