You can beat 80% of the competition just by showing up.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.

You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.

I want him to burn for me, to not be able to go a day without touching me, holding me, caressing me. He’ll be an excellent lover. I want a man who knows how to please me,

Don’t take it so hard, Joel, ” Johnson cut in. “After all, prayer isnot the monopoly of one.” (Chapter 18)

What is missing in our economic system is a central value that can encompass everything that can be transacted and used to assign the proper relative value to everything.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties came prepared to forgive neither party came prepared to be forgiven.

I've always tried to maintain that I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer.

If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.

Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!

I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.