Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

The details of what we call our lives go sometimes to form patterns of meaning not unlike those to be found in our preferred sort of fiction.

Thoughts are one of the most creative powers we have as human beings. If you hold the mantra in your mind that you are continually becoming more healthful and radiant, that is what you will become.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.

Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-

I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.

...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.