Archives - November 2018

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.

Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.

A different language is a different vision of life.

The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.

Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.

There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.

My mom said the two most important kitchen utensils are attached to your arms... you cannot mix up meatballs with a wooden spoon, get in there, get your fingers dirty!

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

We don’t need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition.

The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask.

Light a campfire and everyone's a storyteller.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often --- just to save it from drying out completely.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Buy what you don’t have yet or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.