“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.” – Mother Teresa

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

2 May

When she’s got a problem – dah! - you need to think of asking, ‘what can I do to help?’ [And if you’re not prepared to help when she’s got a problem, why did you let her into your life in the first place? Who’re you kidding?]

“I’m not going to die; I’m going home like a shooting star.” – Sojourner Truth

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

May 2

'I entered the room with a moderate estimate of my own consequence and yet there I was to talk with - and even to advise - the head man of a great nation. I was never more quickly or more completely put at ease in the presence of a great man than in that of Abraham Lincoln.'

- Frederick Douglass

‘I would give up all my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.’

- Steve Jobs

“I praise loudly. I blame softly.” – Catherine the Great

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

1 May

Praise is to humans what the sun is to flowers.

“Be happy for no reason, like a child.” – Deepak Chopra

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

May 1

Charles Dana, Assistant Secretary of War, once told the president that his young daughter wanted to be introduced to the President. Lincoln walked over, took up the girl, kissed her and talked to her. The scene seemed remarkable to Dana because important men of high office usually lack natural and easy grace in handling a child. With Lincoln Dana noticed the child felt easy. Without knowing it Lincoln had passed an acid test!

'There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude - a quiet joy.'

- Ralph H. Blum

“Great men take a stand. Do you?” - Anonymous

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

April 30

 'I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.'

- Abraham Lincoln

'Gradually and incrementally you are called on to progress from “They can do it, but I can't” to “If they can do it, so can I'' and finally to “If I did that then, surely I can do this now.”’

- Arnold Kunst