No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

Do all the work you can, while you can.

But are we human creatures as honest, kind, trustworthy as we at times are inclined to believe?

... while we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessing the far worse effect of drink on an empty mind.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

For the party, the Beijing Games are the biggest political happening of 2008. Everything revolves around them. This will be a huge celebration for the President Hu Jintao and the Premier Wen Jiabao.

I always wanted to play with the sound, but I always wanted to do it in a respectful way, because I never lived in New York and I don't have a real connection to that scene.

If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.