Archives - April 2021

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

There must be more to life than having everything!

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.

The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future.

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself --- and you are the easiest person to fool.

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find --- at the age of 50, say --- that a whole new life has opened before you.

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

It takes so little to make a stranger's day, and even less to totally ruin it.

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that could be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

May it never be a footprint that you shall ever say maybe in May. May it instead be a footprint that you shall do your best and rest the rest!