I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas

I'm not paid to feel. Just fix."- Sydney Chang

I am an acquired taste. Do with that what you will.

I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid.

My private life became public.

My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done.

When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.

Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people.

Peeta smiles at me, sad and mocking. "Okay. Thanks for the tip, sweetheart.