Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Humility is attentive patience.

Courage is grace under pressure.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Sunlight is painting.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.