Archives - June 2014

There are only two things a child will share willingly --- communicable diseases and his mother's age.

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.

Pessimism is as American as apple pie --- frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

The reason I love the sea I cannot explain --- it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the men whose people have been here many generations.

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.

We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.