Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it's written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write it down.

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.

Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.

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.

There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.

Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

When I play sports, when I dance, when I teach mysticism, I cannot explain, even to myself, how I do what I do.

All of us... when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person to whom we believe we speak.

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.

Guns don't kill, people do.

Curiosity is missing. Curiosity in particular is something that the system, not only the educational system but, the parental... what you do as a parent at home.

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.

I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.