Archives - May 2015

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.

A laugh is a smile that bursts.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it --- like a secret vice.

On Mother’s Day I have written a poem for you. In the interest of poetic economy and truth, I have succeeded in concentrating my deepest feelings and beliefs into two perfectly crafted lines:
You’re my mother,
I would have no other!

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away. Just let it out, my friend.

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe --- because I've done a little of this myself --- pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams.

Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long.

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" --- a leader says "Let's go!"

Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.