Archives - March 2019

For many people a job is more than an income --- it's an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.

Take the time to come home to yourself every day.

Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I feel like taking the day off, I do it. Plus, I get to make up silly stories and draw pictures all day.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.

A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you're not sure whether you went out or you came home and confuses you. If it can do both of those things at the same time, you're hooked.

Stories give color to black and white information.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you each morning and night.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Dare to be naive.

Things that I feel really sad about, I talk about. That way, if it's funny, it doesn't hurt anymore.

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.

Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago --- the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider.... It doesn’t seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we’ve traveled.

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someone's yard on the way home from school, I would go to the end of the block and turn.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.