The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

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.

I gave up many times but I never quit.

If you compose your dreams into a music, then your dreams will become the music you will always love to sing.

The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people.

As time goes on you are given responsibility and other things to deal with. You become a husband and a father and there's another shirt of stuff.

Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

The worst part of getting close to someone is the part when you have to miss them.