Books may be irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless

don't worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life cannot only be found in comfort but also in the uncomfortable situations of life

when you do more than you learn, you leave a distinctive notable footprints on earth

There is non who is unfriendly, even the person we may regard as unfriendly has a friend. Our mind is the only limitation and barrier to people

if you are to begin at the beginning of the end, do not wait till the end before you begin. Time and timing is an essential accoutrement in the journey of life.

speak less about what you have done. think more about what you can do

Life is a changing sequence of situations.If you do not change something, something will change you.

the matured understands mistakes as a necessary growth path to maturity

humility must not be equated to mediocrity and cowardice

when distress comes your way, pause and ponder

We don't really change. We finally begin to live a life that is true to our values.

If I had not try and taken chances, I would have miss many great opportunities in life.

Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray.

Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

I had read an early profile of [Tony] Blair by Frank Millar in which he said that Blair was very keen on the 'consent principle'.

When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.

I think there are pieces of yourself that you will always guard.

Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

I'm a bit of a Libertarian.