A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.

When you think of quitting, remember why you started!

We die well when we die with purpose fulfilled".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

I have fun. I always have fun. I don't really get in a hurry about anything. I just try to go with the flow and have fun, and that's how I try to play baseball.

Music in Rocky has always been pivotal.

It may seem draconian, but the best recommendation I can make is to completely avoid grains.

So basically your plan is to flail about helplessly.

It is not possible to love and be wise.

It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.

And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.