
Lately I’ve become a list-maker:
- Measure twice; cut once. Or try not to cut at all.
- Read more than you speak.
- Share energy and enthusiasm; keep opinion to yourself.
- Wear your heart in public but vent your spleen alone.
- Don’t keep lists of disappointment.
- You can touch people at a distance while not feeling someone close at hand.
- The dictionary often has more truth and wisdom than does Holy Writ.
- Be careful not to bury dreams and aspirations too quickly; they often only appear to be dead.
- Teeth placed beneath your pillow turn to cash; don’t buy candy with it.
- Bask in friendships whether they last a week or fifty years.
- Intimacy requires no physical contact.
- Political correctness is always political but rarely correct.
- Wisdom is simply the dawning awareness of ignorance.
- Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach, criticize.
A few of these I wrote myself. Remind me, when I return to old ways.