Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.

There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

Salvation Creek flows till date, endless tears of motherly love and manly regret.

Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

Well, I do not want to be tolerated, nor misnamed. I want to be recognized.

The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.

I want to live till I die. No more, no less.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

Nothing will kill boxing, and nothing can save it.

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.