Archives - August 2013

In some families, please is described as the magic word.  In our house, however, it was sorry.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Learn fast, fail fast, correct fast and connect fast.

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.

Nothing spoils fun like finding out it builds character.

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

“I have done that," says my memory. "I cannot have done that" --- says my pride, and remains adamant. At last --- memory yields.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

All worthy work is open to interpretations that the author did not intend. Art isn’t your pet, it’s your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about...That always worries me!

It is never too late to become what you might have been.