Archives - July 2021

I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.

You suffer a lot more hiding something than if you face up to it.

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.

Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Actions lie louder than words.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within --- strength, courage, dignity.

You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.

I've decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.

My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.