Archives - December 2018

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

There could be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others. Find something to do. Get off the bench. Don’t sit there whining, sucking your thumb, get in the game.

Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long.  If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

It's funny what memory does, isn't it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on --- because the reader certainly will.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

I always believe holidays strengthen the family bond, away from our daily hectic schedules.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head
And kick every worriment out of the bed.

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

Take care that no one hates you justly.

I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there’s no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

There's nothing more confirming in your life than looking in front of you and seeing some really amazing people who you care a lot about who care a lot about you.

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

If you feel good about who you are inside, it will radiate.

Departure of a year welcomes so many new memories.