Tidbits & Quotes: January 2006

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Of course we cross our fingers for our team, and I think chances are not that bad. The women's national soccer team already is world champion, and I don't see a reason why men would not be able to achieve the same as women.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

That's my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that's where my home is.