Archives - June 2015

Ice cream is happiness condensed.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.

There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.

If you're talking about how you promoted synergy in an organization, that could mean you just got everybody together for donuts twice a week.

When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving.

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.

Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.

Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.

Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

That piece of red, white and blue bunting means five thousand years of struggle upwards.  It is the full-grown flower of ages of fighting for liberty.  It is the century plant of human hope in bloom.

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot --- the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

A signature always reveals a man's character --- and sometimes even his name.

It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.

Without forgiveness life is governed by...an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

A hug is like a boomerang --- you get it back right away.

The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.