Archives - November 2008

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

The heart of a fool is his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is his heart.

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

Always be a first rate version of yourself, and not a second rate version of someone else.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day --- even hour to hour.

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax...

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.