Archives - May 2018

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

Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

Having a place to go --- is a home. Having someone to love --- is a family. Having both --- is a blessing.

Never play cat and mouse games if you're a mouse.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

Reflecting on where I came from helps me to appreciate and balance what I have now.

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?

Our language is funny --- a fat chance and slim chance are the same thing.

Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.

Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

Babies are always more trouble than you thought --- and more wonderful.

On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.