It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.

She could tell he was heading toward a bad place. She had seen him go there often enough, knew he had shortcuts he could take to get there in no time.

If the lies don't kill you, the truth will.

He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they'd taken their course.

If you want to change the world, learn to change yourself first.

Surround yourself with people who are positive and who guard against negative talk.

Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.

A column about errors will contain errors.

It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.

Art is the most important way of recording history.

I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world civilization.