“Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.”

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life.

You are mature when you know what is foolhardy and what is courage.

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

September tries its best to have us forget summer.

Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.

Few things move as quietly as the future.

We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.

Americans are optimists. They hope they’ll be wealthy someday – and they’re positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Carbon is probably a bit harder to wrap since it’s procedural.

Greed never allows you to think you have enough; it always destroys you by making you strive ever harder for more.

Don’t work harder than your competition, be your own competition.

I bet the pill is harder to get than drugs–which shows how screwed up this world really is!

It’s even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.

I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience.

Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.