You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

You know Americans...Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else.

Forgiveness is strength.The strength to move ahead without any resentment.

An honest man speaks truth, don't expect him to speak sweet.

Someone or something that wastes your time, makes you lose a part of your life. One you can never get back.

Be therefore not anxious about tomorrow for tomorrow will be anxious for the things of itself.

I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.

I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the World Championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.

Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.