Archives - March 2008

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

My friends are my estate.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

O, the red rose may be fair,
And the lily statelier;
But my shamrock, one in three
Takes the very heart of me!

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

O thou whose face hath felt the Winter's wind,
Whose eye has seen the snow-clouds hung in the mist
And the black elm tops 'mong the freezing stars,
To thee the spring will be a harvest-time.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise!

A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

The Past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth...Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.