You do not know what you can miss before you try.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Too much truth Is uncouth.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!

I was moving around with my imperfect, broken pieces until you came across and stitched my flaws with your words.

When you focus your attention more on your dreams and goals and less on the opinions of others, you are capable of achieving success. No one knows the desires of your heart better than you.

If a local doesn't have to pay it, there's a way for traveler's to get around it.

You know that when ex-military personnel start assassinating their own government's agents that something funky is going on.

As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

Sometimes you have to get rid of something that's good, and tinker with something that's better.

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.

Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.