Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they already have done a good pruning job.

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.

Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it.

Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

A good action is never lost

Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.

I don't know that I'm gonna get along with Vladimir Putin. I hope I do. But there's a good chance I won't. And if I don't, do you honestly believe that Hillary would be tougher on Putin than me?

I have no warm up exercises, other than to take an occasional drink.

I don't like to think about stuff that's boring.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.

I try not to worry about other people's music. But if there's one thing that I hear these days, it's that people try and put [music] down so tight that they take all the color out of it.