An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.

There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

Some people would rather be right that happy, I choose to be happy".

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhap-piness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

This may just be me, but I feel like everyone's dream is to live as an American high school student. There are so many teen films set in America that you live vicariously through them, anyway.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.

Presentation, not reference.

I think that people are going to move. They always have and that's going to continue. The question is, how are we going to deal with it?

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

I still got a few more dances with the devil...

You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.