Archives - September 2015

When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever...it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend.

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

When you meet the one who changes the way your heart beats, dance with them to that rhythm for as long as the song lasts.

There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean, all these memories come back to you at different times. And then the other side of it this tremendous response with the firefighters and the police officers saving people, the rescue workers.

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he’s talking about.

If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, mmmmm boy!

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night; and thus he would never know the rhythms that are at the heart of life.

The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death --- ourselves.

Thank you leaf blowers, for making me look like the world's lamest Ghostbuster. I ain't afraid of no leaves.

It’s such a pleasure to write down splendid words --- almost as though one were inventing them.

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.