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Quotes by Author
"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."
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"You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice."
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"It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone."
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"I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible."
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"The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such."
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"The consistency of their moods and emotions creates a predictable and consistent outcome that can be reassuring in our turbulent times. You know you can depend on approachable people to be well balanced, accepting, and empathetic to the needs and feelings of others."
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"The next time someone tries to make you feel bad about feeling good,respond by continuing to live well."
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"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."
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"A person's reality is determined by their thoughts."
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"A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal."
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"Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order."
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"Being kind is not hereditary."
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"Impeccable manners and courteous behavior are the hallmarks for healthy relations and human interaction."
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"Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not."
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"Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it."
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"The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective."
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"He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed."
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"The secret lies of manipulative folks, however hidden and cunningly twisted shall eventually come out. Never trust manipulative politically motivated, sly liars while they pretend to be "true friends" with noble and just cause."
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"A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife."
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"What we value matters, we become what we are connected to."
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"Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity."
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"Those who have been insulted by ungodliness and injustice could be in a good or better position to stand for or with those that are being insulted by the same."
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"Waiting for things to happen is like daydreaming. To break out of that cycle, you must be willing to take the first small step."
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"When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce."
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"A man enrich his community. A man teach and display leadership qualities for his children. A man by his presence is safety and security for his Queen. The best the thing a man can do for this world, his children and Queen is be a man."
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"He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only."
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"I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue."
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"What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?"
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"The difficulty does not lie in finding new ideas, but in escaping the long outdated belief in old ones."
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"We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist."
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"Each blooming flower breathe an open soul of nature's gratitude. Every blooming friendship is an opening of both heart and mind to touch a unique growth of one's soul. Jolly good friends make you bloom with joy even on a coldest winter as you share your common interests in life, in work, in art, with people and of your passion. Treasure your true friends and feel blessed in your life to have them."
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"I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office."
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