There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals.
To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.
No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.
Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.
It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
I call my balls the bush twins.
Our teachers deserve better feedback.
Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies. . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal crises of the aging preadolescent; all are familiar images of American society. They are signs of private nightmares of incoherence and disorder in broken climaxes where technologies in pursuit of mastery create ever-worsening problems - private nightmares expanded to a social level.
Everybody wants to reach the top of the mountain, but there is no growth at the peak. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.