Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

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.

We cannot change the wind, we can only adjust our sails.

Enjoy the brush strokes of life and try not to worry about filling the canvas.

Being flirty is a way of letting a guy know you're interested without making a fool out of yourself.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

I just want to get into the action. And voice-over work is all action.

We were born to run; we were born because we run.

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. And I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.

my mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.

The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment.