Archives - October 2012

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation -- a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.

Honesty is the best image.

Energy is eternal delight.

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head.

Let no one who loves be unhappy...even love unreturned has its rainbow.

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same.

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Some love's a pill and some love is a candy cane.
It tastes so sweet but leaves you feeling sick with pain.
Your love is air, I breathe it in around me.
Don't know it's there but without it I'm drowning.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

Anyone who had ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2,000 of something.

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.

For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.

Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope.

I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.