Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.

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.

They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

You may fall down when you dance on the edge but edge is the source of all miracles and mystery.

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.

I don't know Heidi Klum. She was never known in France. Claudia Schiffer also doesn't know who she is.

Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.

I can't believe that person on the television is really me.

Business has to give people enriching, rewarding lives...or it's simply not worth doing.

Distraction is the main problem for us all - what the Buddha called the monkey mind. We need to tame this monkey mind.

The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts