Archives - August 2006

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

Never judge a book by its movie.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is --- I could be just as proud for half the money.

Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they have turned out to be, almost all of them, extremely useful.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

The only real possession you'll ever have is your character.

If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue.

How monotonous the sounds of the forest would be if the music came only from the Top Ten birds.