Archives - November 2012

The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.

It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

We all need empty hours in our lives or we will have no time to create or dream. 

All generalizations are bad.

Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Night time is really the best time to work.  All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the Net, it looks like very soon everyone on Earth will have 15 megabytes of fame.

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.