Archives - August 2015

Your bottom line starts with your front line.

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.

Watermelon --- it’s a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Knowing when and how to change course is important to success. Self-doubt is a lighthouse that will keep you from running aground. Don't become shipwrecked on the rocks of time. Be willing to rethink your decisions and change course.

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.

Just once, I would like there to be something special about being the kid stuck in the middle.

Life without left-handed people wouldn't be right.

Thank you paper clips, for being like staples that can't commit.

Taking time out each day to relax and renew is essential to living well.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Television is simply automated daydreaming.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.

Tooth decay was a perennial national problem that meant a mouthful of silver for patients, and for dentists a pocketful of gold.

No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

A perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.