Archives - March 2006

To be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else --- is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange --- my youth.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquence.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

O Ireland isn't it grand you look--
Like a bride in her rich adornin?
And with all the pent-up love of my heart
I bid you the top o' the mornin!

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

To find something you can enjoy is far better than finding something you can possess.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!