There are more fakers in business than in jail.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson, ' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What would they give you seven years for?''Being Gulley Jimson, ' I said, 'and getting away with it.

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

I had this tic where I touch my mouth to my knee, and I'm always screwing up my back. I've had two shoulder surgeries. My doctor just smiles and laughs at me.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"

Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling -- for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, not with a whim but a banker.

I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.