Archives - February 2019

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don't invite the losing team to the White House. They don't have parades for them. They don't throw confetti on them.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

The reasons we can't sleep at night are usually the same reasons we don't truly live during the day.

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

If you were to open up a baby's head --- and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should --- you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.

To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years --- counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot --- but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.

Where we love is home --- home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

A president’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

We're shooting 100 percent --- 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to expect a few blisters.

Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.

I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.

Sometimes the best cure for life’s woes is a sense of humor.

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.