Archives - July 2007

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

...All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon --- instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.

Peace is costly, but it is worth the expense.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself.

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second---best policy.