...there are days when I feel I can do anything and days when I feel I can do nothing. But fortunately for those around me, neither sort occurs very often.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.

There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.People will follow.

Prose divides shame into stations.

I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.

I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.

Suspend judgment until you see the end of the situation.

You can have it all, but not all at once.

I suffer from overheating quite easily.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

My life didn't really begin until I met Ronnie.

There's a lot of power in putting it out in the universe. It's telling your subconscious mind, 'This is what's gonna happen.'