Archives - May 2014

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring --- it was peace.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

Literature is news that stays news.

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers --- but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water is indescribable in its evocations of innocence and delight.

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me then another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do. 

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as a habitual sense of humor.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.

A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust:
Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.