Archives - January 2021

Sometimes a year has been so disastrous and so terrible that entering a new year will automatically mean entering a wonderful year!

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.

Use soft words and hard arguments.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

"Pressure" is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

I tell young people --- including my granddaughter --- there is no shortcut in life. You have to take it one step at a time and work hard. And you have to give back.

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.