Archives - May 2019

Appreciation is a wonderful thing.  It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Treat each person as if their heart was breaking. More often than not, you will be right.

Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have --- life itself.

Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.

There's no time for regrets. You've just got to keep moving forward.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.

Every human being has...an attendant spirit.... If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

My childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean playtime is.

I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working --- doing good work --- and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.

Ask not the grass to give you green, and later walk all over it.

I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.

Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes --- Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth.

It doesn’t matter how deep into a posture you go, what matters is who you are when you get there.

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.