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

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.

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.

Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along!

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.