Archives - April 2018

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.

A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment in time, these ideas collide and produce a novel.

Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there?

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

You have power over your mind --- not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

The pleasure that poetry gives is that of imagining more than is written; the task is divided between the poet and his reader.

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have.