Daniel Keys

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it’s only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

“He who angers you, conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!

I don’t know anybody so old he can’t do something useful. Just give them a chance and see.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Suppression of progress plays into the hands of the social enemy. Every advance in social justice establishes the nation.

Do you realize that you can’t play the game of life with sweaty palms?

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.