Archives - August 2008

Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.

I dream, therefore I become.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

There is really nothing more to say --- except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

The beginning is always today.

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.

One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.

Crime does not pay...as well as politics.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for: 'Ohhh my God, you're thin.'

But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world --- not even our troubles.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.