Archives - December 2010

Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame
Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but
cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in
it.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be
entirely uneducated.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are
more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People
know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of
their great respect, they don't even invite me.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been
forgotten.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter
and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you
can be all that you were intended to be.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you
can't look back on having given love and attention to your own
family, what have you really accomplished?

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I
looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of
suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere
rest on pure joy!

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying
to please everybody.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom
known until it be lost.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them,
get them right, or they will get you wrong.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame
to be an excuse for indolence.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by
going too fast --- you also miss the sense of where you are going
and why.

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor
a bad mood.

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an
exception.

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you
like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your
heart... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year
--- and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong
authority.

Kwanzaa affirms that mothers and fathers of previous generations
transmitted African Americans' existence and persistence to the
mothers and fathers of today. Pass it on.

Failure is an event, never a person.

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable
invented to make them laugh.

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some
people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go
along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their
way.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is
waiting.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.