It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.

Small changes can make huge destination differences.

The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.

If you cannot afford yourself any luxuries for the time being, at least offer yourself the one priceless luxury no one can take away from you – your time

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

Never king dropped out of the clouds.

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork.

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

Let's put it this way: the glass is half-empty, but the fact is, I can always get another drink