Archives - May 2007

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings.

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale of all.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time for him to feed on it.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am thankful that the thorns have roses.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes, explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.