Archives - September 2017

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Without labor nothing prospers.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care --- with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.

Recklessness is a species of crime and should be so regarded on our streets and highways.

You learn something every day if you pay attention.

This very moment is a seed from which tomorrow's flowers grow.

Is there a point at which every Sunday during the NFL season ceases to make a man feel like a kid on Christmas morning?

If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate.

Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce.

Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.

The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering: Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

When we grow old, there can only be one regret --- not to have given enough of ourselves.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

It is a delightful pastime to sit in the pleasant sunshine of autumn, and gazing from this little spot of free earth over such a landscape, let the imagination luxuriate amid the thrilling associations of the scene!

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on.

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience --- unless they are still up.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it.

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football.