Archives - February 2022

I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it.

To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.

It isn’t where you come from; it’s where you’re going that counts.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.

I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Humor gives presidents the chance to be seen as warm, relaxed persons. Humor reaches out and puts its arm around the listener and says, "I am one of you, I understand," and implicitly it promises, "I will do something about your problems."

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

Doing nothing is very hard to do...you never know when you're finished.

The power to bring me out of solitude --- or to push me back into it --- had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.