Archives - March 2016

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life --- to be happy --- it's all that matters.

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.

A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang... Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

A lurking pun is the worst pun, one the offender has been waiting to spring on you.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

The list of Irish saints is past counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick --- who was an Irishman only by adoption.

If you don't have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

Children are a great comfort in your old age --- and they help you reach it faster, too.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big.

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.