Archives - June 2006

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

We are all of us stars and we all deserve to twinkle.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

Summer afternoon --- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

When you fall in a dream, sometimes you die, sometimes you wake up, and sometimes you learn to fly.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.