Archives - May 2021

Getting there isn't half the fun --- it's all the fun.

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but I still keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it --- don't back down and don't give up --- then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

Writers go to bed with a dozen people…and wake with one new chapter.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

There is no glory in the tepid smiles of the thousands. It is better to have the uproarious laughter of the hundreds.

Music is the medicine of a troubled mind.

On this day, take time to remember those who have fallen. But on every day after, do more; put the freedoms they died for to greater and nobler uses.

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.