How to fail: Try too hard.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

The only fight should be the fight of faith. Full force of enduring to the end of life.

One is never too late to become young at heart.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Normally ghosts didn't scare him. (Assuming, of course, Gaea hadn't encased them in shells of stone and turned them into killing machines. That had been a new one for him.)

The only things that were available to me were either be a laborer or be a drug dealer. So I became an armed robber. It was a lot simpler.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

I have been very consistent over the course of my entire life. I have always fought for the same values and principles.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

The air travel industry moves into a new phase every five to six years.

Those are the liberals who don't want to win. Those are the liberals who are in love with noble defeats, and I'm sick and tired of noble defeats.