Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions.