Archives - February 2007

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving --- not giving and taking.

Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

All great achievements require time.

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone you can't live without.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.