Issue 231
- A people that values its privileges
above its principles soon loses both.
- Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
- Physical courage, which despises all danger,
will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage,
which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
- A local politician was once enmeshed in his own oratory. Said he: Build a
chain-link fence around the winter's supply of summer weather; skim the
clouds from the sky with a teaspoon; catch a thundercloud in a saucepan;
break a hurricane to harness; quiet and soothe an earthquake; lasso an
avalanche; pin a napkin on the crater of an active volcano-but never expect
to see me false to my principles.
- Life breaks us all, but afterwards,
many of us are strongest at the broken places.
- Creativity can solve almost any problem.
The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
- The average person thinks he isn't.
- There is only one corner of the universe you can be
certain of improving and that's your own self.
- Those who seek faultless friends, remain friendless.
- If you're enthusiastic about the things you're working on,
people will come ask you to do interesting things.