There’s more to life than increasing its speed.

We place artificial demands on ourselves that undermine our happiness. These demands force us to work harder and harder to cross a finish line that keeps moving.

Achieving success is hard staying successful is even harder.

It’s better to bite your tongue than to eat your words.

People stop trying when there’s no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre.

Keeping score, in friendships, is a losing game.

It’s your life to live. Own it! You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life.

What counts that we’re not counting?

You send a message by what you say and what you do. If words aren’t supported with consistent actions, they will ring hollow.

Many people are actually poor because the only thing they have is money.

A positive mental attitude can improve your health, enhance your relationships, increase your chances of success, and add years to your life.

We must take responsibility for ourselves, for who we become, for how we live each day.

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.

Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.

That's what it's like to be a comedian. You basically stand and stare at the world and hope it craps out cause that's a good year for you. So that's not a pleasant feeling.

As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.

I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.

As soon as everyone is on the bandwagon with one idea, a leader should be working on the next one.

Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.