Archives - June 2012

I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

We may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all --- the apathy of human beings.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy --- it won't come out while you're watching.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Nothing is permanent in this weekend world --- not even our troubles.

Laughter is the sun that drives the winter from the human face.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness… Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid of ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and explain or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

He who awaits much can expect little.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.