The path you're on looks different when you turn around.

Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.

Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down.

It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them.

Look at the footprints you've made.

Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

If you want to see a shooting star, you might have to spend a lot of nights looking up.

Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

By now he had learned. Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him--this is all!

Compromise is a sign you'll pass on the road to mediocrity.

The liberals' present furor over the CIA's covert operations against al-Qaida suggests that they harbor a death wish not only for themselves but also for the whole country.

But if you move fast, you can have your freedom.

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

People say 'nerd' condescendingly, but when you're older you start to realize that it's the nerds who grow up to be the cool ones.

There's no fast track, no easy track, especially from where I came from. You try to take the most of it and learn from it and hope others learn from it. That's what it is about.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.