Archives - June 2013

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Poetry is life distilled.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
But when the darkness sets in,
Their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity. 

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. 

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Summertime is always the best of what might be.

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

If you want to be happy, be.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.