You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

Minds are like parachutes...they only function when they are open.

To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone.

Perhaps you do not understand me because you do not love me.

The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.

To fail to plan is to plan to fail.

We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within us—it simply reveals what we are made of already.