Archives - February 2020

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect.

On cable TV they have a weather channel --- 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.

In this very breath that we now take lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

Nothing can take the sting off the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other golden statues.

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

When my heart is heavy, the sun helps make it light.

Small children are convinced that ponies deserve to see the inside of the house.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

We are only young once. That is all society can stand.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

You never have the wind with you --- either it is against you or you're having a good day.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Every leap year I like to jump. It’s a good way to get my daily exercise in every four years.