Al’s Quotes & Quips for June

• “You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.” (Abraham Lincoln)
• “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”  (Albert Einstein)
• You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.” (Audrey Hepburn, quoted in The Telegraph (U.K.)).
• “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” (Annie Dillard, quoted in NYTimes.com)
• “You don’t lead by pointing and telling people someplace to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.” (Ken Kesey, quoted in RefDesk.com)
• “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.” (Mark Twain)
• “I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.” (Orson Wells, quoted in GQ magazine)
• “If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.” (Benjamin Franklin)

QUOTE OF THE MONTH:  Recently Jane Seymour was asked: “What has motherhood taught you about yourself?”  I like her answer:  “I have learned that there is no perfect mother, and if your heart is open as a mother or as a child that is the only way to have that relationship. You have to be able to let go of things. You have to realize that if you are the child or you have the child, you don’t own them.  They aren’t you.”