Patience protects you from deception

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

A Controlled Mind Can Create All That It Words...!

Diplomacy in leadership is winning the war on behalf of both sides

People talk a lot but they rarely say anything.

There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person’s mind.

The library remains a sacred place for secular folk ["What Libraries Can (Still) Do, " The New York Review Daily, October 26, 2015].

A man in loss is not a man to trust.

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

Im afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

Surround yourself with people who are doers!