Acceptance makes any event put on a new face.

We have to serve ourself many years before we gain our own confidence.

Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance.

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.

An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it in place of dust.

If a man hears much that a woman says she is not beautiful.

Disappointments should be cremated not embalmed.

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

I try changing my surfing, which is the absolute worst thing you can do. Everyone surfs their own way. If I try to surf like someone else I look like a dork.

The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free.

Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

Paul [Walker]’s kindness was pure. He never asked for credit of glory. He was just a really good guy.

We're in more wars today under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than under George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan. Yet they tell you that Bush lied and people died, and we were all over the Middle East.

Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.

Age doesn't matter. An open mind does.

Statesmen remember things selectively.