Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

Almost all of the finer things in life are free or nearly free. You don't have to pay for the sky at night or snow in the morning or a kiss on the nose when you're sick. Forgetting that may put you at the mercy of those who seek to profit by convincing you to want whatever it is they have to sell.

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

The magnitude of an action may change not only the strength of its impact, but the direction. If you became a dentist, for example, you would certainly be an asset to our society. But what if everyone became a dentist? Who would bake the bread? Who would build the houses?

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.