We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

I believe in the 20/80 rule. That's where working an extra 20% faster, harder, or smarter gets you an extra 80% of the rewards.

Be careful in your life, Tolui. I want you fit and strong for when I come for you.

Growth can only come when you are insecure, when you don't know it all.

Rumour is a pipeBlown by surmises, jealousies, conjecturesAnd of so easy and so plain a stopThat the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.

The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams.

God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.

There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.