Archives - April 2014

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us now knowing this truth. We are at our best when they give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Unless your name ends in Baskin or Robbins, I really can't fit you into my schedule right now.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.

Anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be.

What is the opposite of two?  A lonely me, a lonely you.

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

Dear IRS, I am writing to you to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.

Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.

It's not what the dream is but what the dream does.

Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born.

A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.

Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.

The day has eyes; the night has ears.

Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off?

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.