You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

The comforter's head never aches.