Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

If you will not hear reason, she'll rap your knuckles.

For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.

Is that why you didn't call me? Because I'm an idiot?

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!

Failure's hard. There's no way around. Bombing on stage never feels great. You feel judged, you feel alone. But then when your performance works, it's transcendent.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

No one, not even lovers, are truly psychic, and everyone flounders around each other, misunderstanding, misinterpreting, sending out confusing signals.