Archives - October 2007

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

I dwell in possibility...

A ship in harbor is safe --- but that is not what ships are for.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope --- a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

It's a control freak thing. I wouldn't let you understand.

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience --- that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait.

Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.