July 24 Birthdays

Always remember. You will live. You will love. You will dance again.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life, and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald

If I dont do laundry today, Im gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.

I prefer the word homemaker because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

Its every little girls dream to have an exact look-alike doll. Its amazing.

I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called `brightness', but it doesn't work.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied, weve all gone through that period. Its not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

Youre trying too hard to find a correlation here. You dont know these people, you dont know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.

I just want to be remembered as a person who loved God, who served others more than he served himself, who was trying to grow in maturity and stability.

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called objectivity. Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

I can always see what Ive done wrong. Im always learning. Im the perennial student.

Military operations alone cannot defeat an insurgency because only economic development and political action can address most sources of disaffection. If military operations are not conducted consistent with political objectives or occur without economic development, they are certain to alienate the population further, reduce the amount of intelligence available to [...] security forces, and strengthen rather than weaken the enemy. H.R. McMaster

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued, being happy engrosses the whole attention.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.