If you can't give people a piece of your mind, they probably don't deserve the whole of your heart.

It takes more effort to avoid the truth than it does to face it.

Those who lack courage are often the first to discourage.

Be a hungry, passionate go-getter and together we will accomplish wonders.

If you aren't going out for business, you may go out of business.

You experience true happiness when the things you desire rise up to the level of the things you deserve.

Valuing other people's time starts with valuing your own.

Few things inspire me more than a timely smile from someone I truly admire.

If you open your mind more than you open your mouth, you will open your world more than you open your doubt.

Issues arise not from expecting too much from people, but too little.

If you make more appointments with quality people, you will have less disappointments with non-quality people.

a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.

Sometimes stepping away from what you desire the most, is the best action to take: because it gives the process the momentum to take its own course.

Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.

The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

Focus on opportunities, not problems.

Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?

The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women