Archives - December 2007

I wish to believe in immortality --- I wish to live with you forever.

Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

The great tragedy of Science --- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Kindle the taper like the steadfast star
Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth,
And add each night a lustre till afar
An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential --- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow colorblind.

In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature.

What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?

Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

It's too early. I never eat December snowflakes. I always wait 'til January.

One day at a time --- this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.