Archives - July 2014

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity.  But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

The United States is the only country with a known birthday.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Old is always fifteen years from now.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.

I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.

The shortest answer is doing.

Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it's easy to forget they're not gifted with the English language and then get snubbed when we talk to them and they don't say anything back.

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.

The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born and never stops working until you get up to speak in public.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.