Archives - June 2020

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

Our illness is often our healing.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold. 

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

The total person sings, not just the vocal chords.

My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon.

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing them becomes too high...

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted --- stay up all night or eat ice cream straight out of the container.

The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time.

My inspiration is art...because without art, we would just be stuck with reality.

Won’t it be wonderful when Black history and Native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in the fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

When you’re young, you think your dad is Superman. Then you grow up, and you realize he’s just a regular guy who wears a cape.

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!

Books are something social --- a writer speaking to a reader --- so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

There's nothing sweeter than a cup of bitter coffee.

I never get tired of the blue sky.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you.

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.