Archives - August 2014

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours.

My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.

There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required.

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Start off everyday with a simple smile and get it over with.

A friend is a present you give yourself.

Why wilderness? Because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

The mere brute pleasure of reading --- the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

A bargain ain't a bargain unless it's something you need.

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.