Don't let the bastards get you down.

To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life.

It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.

For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You're paying your membership dues in the human race.