Archives - November 2010

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections
is to find out if the polls were right?

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with
that decision.

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and
why. Then do it.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to
travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is
tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to
them.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous
formation through choice of action.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated
warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of
yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess
player, not the chess piece.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes
and she-roes!

Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to
ask.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective
if you can stop people talking.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are
and taking your rightful place in the world.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly
on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have
entertained us.

No man who worships education has got the best out of
education...Without a gentle contempt for education no man's
education is complete.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value
than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or
useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great
deal in a few.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared
mind.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not
only to be right but also to be wrong.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure
of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any
philosophy, not even mine.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care
about.

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of
our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans
have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside
a day of thanksgiving.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his
friends.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the
joy.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they
enkindle and melt the soul.

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three
kinds --- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect
to have.