Archives - December 2011

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Acting like someone you're not is exactly what it takes to realize you're capable of more than you ever knew.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

Nature abhors a vacuum, but not as much as cats do.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

If you had to define stress, it would not be far off if you said it was the process of living. The process of living is the process of having stress imposed on you and reacting to it.

If you aren't going to say something directly to someone's face, than don't use online as an opportunity to say it. It is this sense of bravery that people get when they are anonymous that gives the blogosphere a bad reputation.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

Every mile is two in winter.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

There are no strangers on Christmas Eve.

At Christmas, all roads lead home.

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.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

The future ain't what it used to be.

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.