How Come, Yes, Difference, That's Easy, Speak Up Full Time, Age, Diversity

   “We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”

   “Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”

   “Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.”

   “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”

I work by day, write by night, part time, and speak up full time. Bright light from a distant star

   “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

   “Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.”

   “Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”