Archives - January 2008

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

The best blush to use is laughter. It puts roses in your cheeks and in your soul.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again --- this is the brave and happy life.

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Make your life a mission --- not an intermission.