Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.

There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.

Powerless=lifeless.

It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future.

Maybe she had it wrong all this time and her empty heart could never be filled by his ingenious broken spirit. Maybe this yearning had nothing to do with him, and everything to do with her.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.

I wish I hadn't made so many images.

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.