November 17th, 2013:
- Defy convention.
- Question authority.
- Keep your promises.
- Nothing is simple. Simplicity is bait on somebody else’s hook.
- Never wear anybody’s advertising but your own.
- When you think you’ve heard too much Gustav Holst, play some Madonna.
- Friends are a revenue center. Enemies are a cost center.
- Never believe anything an angry person says, especially when they’re not angry.
- Fat makes you thin. Sugar will kill you.
- Political parties exist to take everything you have and hand it to psychopaths on a silver platter.
- Fathers matter.
- Time shatters what cannot hold, and perfects what cannot be broken.
- If you can still wear a shirt thirty years later, you know you’re doing OK. This is a good reason to keep a shirt or two for thirty years.
- Join a political party and you’re selling youself into slavery.
- Evil is the root of all evil. There is no middleman.
- Love matters way more than who’s got a plug and who’s got a socket.
- Don’t try to make a bowling ball out of 2 X 4’s.
- You’re not really an adult until you can run around the house in your underwear, reciting Dr. Seuss at the top of your lungs.
- Certainty is a species of mental illness.
- Self-esteem is confidence without calibration.
- Think outside the box. Then make something out of the box.
- If you see a pinata, remember that somewhere close by is a blindfolded person swinging a stick.
- Pitch can be useful. It’s politics that defileth all it toucheth.
- Don’t settle for an iron will. Gram for gram, aluminum is stronger.
- A dog is a fingertip of the Almighty, thrust briefly into our lives to measure the breadth and depth of our kindness. Remember Whose fingertip it is.
- Dance, especially if you’re not good at it.
- Stand by your spouse no matter what.
- They build too low, who build beneath the stars.
- Kick ass. Just don’t miss.
- Think!
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