Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.
It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.
A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.
Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
My thoughts are like waffles - the first few don't look so good.
You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.
Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.
I believe a 'talented' person is one who has learned how to effectively cultivate and polish any of the many desirable capabilities with which most of us are born but few of us nurture.
I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.
Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.
The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. The difference between an autobiography and an unauthorized biography is like the difference between an account of your life written by your mother and one written by your mother-in-law.
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
The magnitude of an action may change not only the strength of its impact, but the direction. If you became a dentist, for example, you would certainly be an asset to our society. But what if everyone became a dentist? Who would bake the bread? Who would build the houses?
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.
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.
Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.
Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.
Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.
I?d rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.
