Al’s Quotes & Quips for May

• “You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event it is a habit.” (Aristotle)
• “The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.” (Julia Child, quoted in The Wall Street Journal)
• “You know you’re getting old when you can pinch an inch on your forehead.”
• “Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.” (Jules Renard)
• “Don’t let someone dim your light simply because it is shining in their eyes.”
• “Don’t let someone stop your vision simply because they are standing in your way.”
• “Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.” (Colin Powell, quoted in the Nashville Tennessean)
• “Every great film should seem new every time you see it.” (Roger Ebert, quoted in CNN.com)
• “The aim of friendship is exclusively determined by what God’s will is for the other person.” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
• “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.” (the late Jonathan Winters, one of my favorite comedians, AH)
• QUOTE OF THE MONTH:  “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.” —Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc.