Archives - August 2007

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

To freely bloom --- that is my definition of success.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.

I don't have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honor or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together, united by a good and a kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources --- Marvel Comics and FINNEGANS WAKE.

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all its beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.

Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.

The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.