Archives - September 2020

A stumble may prevent a fall.

The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Pessimism is as American as apple pie --- frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

A photograph gives relief to the banished and absent lover.

Find something you love to do, and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.

Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

When Americans lend a hand to one another, nothing is impossible. We’re not about what happened on 9/11. We’re about what happened on 9/12.

I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home.

Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle.

Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

Fruit only angers my need for chocolate.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

The purpose of life is not to be happy --- but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

How reluctantly the mind consents to reality!

Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends --- you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.