Archives - November 2020

Do not say, "It is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Knowledge consists of knowing that a tomato is a fruit, and wisdom consists of not putting it in a fruit salad.

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable.

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

Take your job seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously.

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Stay humble. Always answer your phone --- no matter who else is in the car.

Mindful eating is eating with intention while paying attention.

Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear...

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring --- it was peace.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker.

A small business is an amazing way to serve and leave an impact on the world you live in.

As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.