You can never learn to be strong if you have not fallen and got up by yourself.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

Wisdom is the best gift you can ever build. It gets you to unimagined heights and knowledge follows it.

I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.

Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

By learning to be more warm-hearted we can create a more compassionate world.

Hope lies in what action we take.

It is in the nature of the mind that the more we cultivate and familiarize ourselves with positive emotions, the more powerful they become.

The future can be different if we choose to make it so.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

Life is not a matter for simple optimism--for there is evil

In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.

Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers.

It's best if you can do things with a sense of humor and finesse.

Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.

Don't think that any one technique is the end. there is no end. There is no perfect technique. Just when you think you've got them, you're dead because you didn't.

I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.

The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store . . . with a pricing gun. She said, "Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store."