Cunning authors cut to be quoted.

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

Quotations calcify into clichés.

Flatter yourself critically.

Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves.

At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.

Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.

[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.

Flattery works like a drug.

If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.

Eat like you love your body.

Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow.

I hate it when I go into a Snack Shack and they're out of Blue Ice. The other slushie flavors taste like cheap candy.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.

Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat.

You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance