Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

Because everything worth having hurts.

By the time, another disappointment reaches me .... I'll be buried!

You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.

It's kind of fun to hear that other people deal with the same kinds of issues that you do.

We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache.

You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.

I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.