An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What are you doing? Clearly irritated, the first man responded, What the heck do you think I'm doing? I'm laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question. The second fellow responded, Oh, I'm making a living. He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing? The third looked up, smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral. At the end of the day, who feels better about how he's spent his last eight hours?
Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.
Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
Your thoughts are making you.
There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.
The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
