Timely Thoughts & Reflections

There are some persons who never think about Heaven except when they see a graveyard.

                                                                                                             -Reprinted from The Almanack of 1920

Judging by most human behavior, the mind is merely an invention of the body designed to justify the relentless pursuit of gratification.

                                                                                                                                  -From The Almanack of 1970

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.
What was the first thing a man must do before he can be a man? He must be born. He must leave the womb; and once left, it could not be re-entered.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.


Be the change you want to see in the world.

The sun is but a morning star.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

What we think, we become.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Free men can easily become enslaved, if they let others do their thinking and talking, instead of using their own heads.