Archives - December 2021

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Being happy never goes out of style.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side --- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.

Knowledge lives at the library, and the nice people there always let us take some home.

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is time for home.

The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Christmas Eve ought to be a very joyful evening to us in all its associations, in all the truths which it naturally brings to the soul.... A man's soul is to be as the heavens were on the night when the shepherds looked up and saw them full of angels as well as stars.

Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.