I Shall Return!
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
Americans never quit.
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
You don’t win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a b*tch die for his.
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.
The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else…. If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
There it is: it doesn’t make any difference who we are or what we are, there’s always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
I know the sun rises in the eat and sets in the west, that I am ten fingers and ten toes and ten thousand reasons short of explaining what it is I can’t explain to you. And I know that I will always love you in certainties.
Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.
Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Life can’t be all that bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
You, and only you, choose how you feel.
If you enjoy it enough you’re bound to learn something.
I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.
The Smiths dream into my ear on this lost and lonely morning. I sing along like it is the only prayer I know (forgive me, Mother Mary).
