Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.

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.

For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.

The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

My power is immeasurable; My truth inexplicable, unfathomable.

I wish you’d find the exit out of my head.