Archives - June 2016

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities, and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings.

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

I don’t like standard beauty --- there is no beauty without strangeness.

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

The 12-step chocoholics program: Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate!

When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something.

The moments that make life worth living are when things are at their worst and you find a way to laugh.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

You can't reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday's junk.

Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them.

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.