Archives - June 2009

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Memory feeds imagination.

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people --- to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Hope is a waking dream.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.