Archives - January 2011
January 1, 2011
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put
words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its
first chapter is New Year's Day.
January 2, 2011
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the
ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is
something that is not there.
January 3, 2011
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main
sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of
wisdom.
January 4, 2011
I am not young enough to know everything.
January 5, 2011
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
January 6, 2011
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to
them.
January 7, 2011
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone
wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than
one night."
January 8, 2011
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions --- as
attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him
answers above all.
January 9, 2011
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
January 10, 2011
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
January 11, 2011
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science
fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
January 12, 2011
If I had my life to live over...I'd dare to make more mistakes next
time.
January 13, 2011
Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
January 14, 2011
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get
an education.
January 15, 2011
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known
fear.
January 16, 2011
What's another word for Thesaurus?
January 17, 2011
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love
harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
January 18, 2011
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions,
including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the
dog.
January 19, 2011
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be
unpopular.
January 20, 2011
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in
the future.
January 21, 2011
Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
January 22, 2011
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
January 23, 2011
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can
change the outer aspects of their lives.
January 24, 2011
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the
prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is
your heart.
January 25, 2011
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not
diminished by the indifference of others.
January 26, 2011
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past
mercies.
January 27, 2011
One can acquire everything in solitude --- except character.
January 28, 2011
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all
the others were making ships.
January 29, 2011
Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so
busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and
their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.
January 30, 2011
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there
are to laugh at it.
January 31, 2011
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my
own character.
