Archives - April 2015

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke --- and that the joke is oneself.

"Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.

The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.

It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.

Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.

Skipping is nature’s antidepressant.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring --- quite often the hard way.

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Rainbows apologize for angry skies.

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. 

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.