The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

For you born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word"- Catherine Drinker Bowen

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

One moment cannot be the most important.

I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

There's no match for the silence of GOD.

Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?

By the grace of God you are what you are; glory in your selfhood, accept yourself and go on from there.