Archives - August 2018

I have seen the future and it is very much like the present --- only longer.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. 

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools --- only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.

Conscience is, in most, an anticipation of the opinion of others.

You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn't come off the way you thought it should come off.

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.

I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked "brightness" but it don't work, does it?

Worry is a misuse of imagination.

Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.

Simplify, then add lightness.

Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits.

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Gardening requires lots of water --- most of it in the form of perspiration.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.