Words and numbers are of equal value, for in the cloak of knowledge one is warp and the other woof.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

A good book written for children can be read by adults

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

Behind every successful woman is a hungry man.

arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

America would have a disaster on trade, and America will have a disaster with open borders.

There is no more alluring airspace in the world than the slit up a China girl's dress.

You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.

Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.

[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.

It is dangerous if our identity as a leader becomes more important than our identity as a child of God.

I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus the sense-making tools you have.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.