Archives - May 2020

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Becoming successful is a relentless pursuit. It's good that it's that way: When it does come, you learn to know how to appreciate it, and know how lucky you are to be doing something that you love so much.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games.

Action is the antidote to despair.

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

Fully understanding spoils the story --- the best are always translucent.

Hungry for both fantasy and inspiration, readers crave protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, triumph at the end of the day.

One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

There is something wholly likeable about most people who write about animals.

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

All of life is the exercise of risk.

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.