The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.

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.

There’s a lamentation in the flutter of your lash.

The sky inside my head never turns blue. It if forced to stay red. By the demon, who is yellow inside me.

Sir I would rather be right than be President.

If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die happy.

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change.

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

I think it's very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don't talk about. That's why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.

A man lets you know who he is by how he treats others.