Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.

The object of your desire is not an object.

Never offer advice just to appear concerned.

Experience will tell you if you need more of it.

Never be angry with something that can't get angry with you.

Boring is the right thought at the wrong time.

We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves.

Do not ask questions until you have trained yourself not to know the answers.

A comment that starts with the words "I think" usually means the opposite.

The best foundation for relationships to grow, flourish, and succeed is a deep-rooted friendship.

I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain.

[My father was ] Presbyterian [minister]. But I did not take the Bible seriously until I was forced to take Hebrew at McCormick Theological Seminary.

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.

You should get to keep every dollar that you earn. That's your money. That's not the government's money.

The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

It's hard to make a book episodic.

First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.