Archives - July 2018

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.

There's a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible --- elves probably more so.

Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves --- once they've learned the rules.

I think a book is your calling card, your business card.

There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

The World Cup experience is more than just the game of soccer. It's an event. And it will fly by faster than you think. It will end and you'll be saying, 'Wow, it's over already?' You have to remember to take it all in and enjoy it.

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.

No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

There's something beautifully soothing about a fact --- even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means.

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

No one wants advice --- only corroboration.