Archives - February 2008

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

If it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed --- it is a process of elimination.

I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

Never confuse movement with action.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

Well done is better than well said.

Abraham Lincoln needs no marble shaft to perpetuate his name; his words are the most enduring monument, and will forever live in the hearts of the people.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows one to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

If I were to characterize George Washington's feelings toward his country, I should be less inclined than most people to stress what is called Washington's love of his country. What impresses me as far more important is what I should call Washington's respect for his country.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Advice is like snow --- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.