Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

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.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

There's never peace in war....perhaps it exists in one's mind at the time.. however short-lived

She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it.

…you know how hard it is to be utterly, drop dead gorgeous, " she said, twirling that shiny instrument of torture she liked to call her hair.

Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.

The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.

. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.

A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.

I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.

I’m pleased with how ridiculous I am. I like me. Though I’m not a huge fan. I know when to switch me off.