Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.

Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

Don't be like those who constantly upgrade their gadgets but never their minds.

People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause.'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption.

If I lose I'll walk away and never feel bad.... Because I did all I could there was nothing more to do.

In Flanders' fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row That mark our place and in the sky The larks still bravely singing fly Scarce heard among the guns below.

I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

I just never want to completely grow up.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

I'm not really comfortable in any one spot.