While toxic food is bad for your health and well-being, so are negative and unethical people.

Moral character is the DNA of success and happiness.

When you master the basics, and execute them well, there’s no need to worry about the score.

Courageous people know that saying ‘no’ to one idea enables them to say ‘yes’ to another.

Real leaders focus resources in areas that provide the greatest opportunity rather than making across-the-board decisions.

Fair-minded people earn the respect of their colleagues rather than demanding it.

Courageous people know that old ways of doing things shouldn’t stand in the way of a better solution.

Courageous people run toward the problem rather than away from it.

When you compete against yourself, you both win.

Sadly, some folks don’t live . . . they merely exist.

Trust takes a long time to develop, but can be lost in the blink of an eye.

Silence is a source of Great Strength.

Oh, so there were angels and demons, but no vampires? No mysterious, super-hot bloodsuckers who would love you forever? Now that was totally unfair.

Innocence is a better world.

The war brought out all the art in me.

Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

When we stop to count our blessings rather than focusing on our predicament, our attitude will be able to help us cope with our situation more productively.

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.