Archives - February 2016

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

The greatest wealth is health.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The past can't see you, but the future is listening.

You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.

Pleasure is spread through the earth in stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

A good time to laugh is any time you can.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

There is much in the world to make us afraid.  There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

Stars are rare creatures, and not everyone can be one. But there isn't anyone on earth --- not you, not me, not the girl next door --- who wouldn't like to be a movie star holding up that gold statuette on Academy Award night.

A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.