Archives - November 2013

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition:  it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes names as it changes directions.

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dream to someone else.

I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

People say that losing weight is no walk in the park.  When I hear that I think, yeah, that's the problem.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

I used to be “with it”. But then they changed what “it” was. Now what I’m “with” isn’t “it”, and what is “it” seems weird and scary to me.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie --- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth --- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't.

While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.