Archives - April 2016

It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing?

Walking is man's best medicine.

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.

Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Nurses are the hospitality of the hospital.

The beauty of standing up for your rights is others will see you standing and stand up as well.

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character.

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

A horse is a thing of beauty...none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.