Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

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.

I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.

It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses -- the precise place where you would expect to see the least.

In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.

You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don’t spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won’t get higher student outcomes.

As far am I'm concerned, I don't listen to radio anymore. They play the same ten songs over and over again, so why would I?

Underwear is such an emotional thing.

There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.

Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

I offer you what I have my Poverty