Archives - October 2006

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night...without the satisfaction.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

Life is too short for traffic.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

The only cure for grief is action.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.

Where there is no imagination there is no Horror.