Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

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.

Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?

Being a solution and not a problem proves progression.

In the State of Denmark there was the odor of decay...

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

We don't do sensible things. This is America.

[Gal Gadot] is really intense and scary and also incredibly warm and sweet.

We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today.

It's always fun to play a bad guy because you get more to do. It's more arch. There's more energy to throw into it.

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.