Archives - December 2020

Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.

Exercising self-restraint can be depleting, yet it can also be ennobling.

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

As a 1960s teen aspiring writer, I used phrases of the day: far out, I can dig it, groovy, peace, right on. Decades later, I still use the latter… In my email signature block and spell it Write on!

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.

Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.

Kwanzaa is a special time to remember the ancestors, the bridge builders, and the leaders.

Even writers need relief from words.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

Celebrate endings --- for they precede new beginnings.