THE GAP: Closed-Mindedness can create it, Narrow-Mindedness can widen it, Open-Mindedness can close it, Like-Mindedness… Will Bridge It!

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

Wisdom is the best gift you can ever build. It gets you to unimagined heights and knowledge follows it.

I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.

Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

By learning to be more warm-hearted we can create a more compassionate world.

Hope lies in what action we take.

It is in the nature of the mind that the more we cultivate and familiarize ourselves with positive emotions, the more powerful they become.

The future can be different if we choose to make it so.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." Samuel Johnson

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

If you're a capitalist and you have the best goods and they're free, you don't have to proselytize, you just have to wait.

... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

In order to change the system, we need to change our ideas.

By making the place and the people and the feelings real, by the time someone closes the cover of one of my books, they have, hopefully, felt all of the emotions of life.

E.T., who said to Phyllis Diller, You look weird. Never got a dinner!

Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.