An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Gold authenticity can only be tested under maximum fire. The same holds true with regard to manhood.

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

I don't sing. I do everybody a favor and I don't sing.

Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.

I don’t want to be a lonely governor.

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

I think age is just a stupid number.

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.

I think that trying to invest through 535 people is a tough job, you know, and so I would give more latitude.

Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.