Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.

Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.

How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others.

Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.

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.

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own

I believe a 'talented' person is one who has learned how to effectively cultivate and polish any of the many desirable capabilities with which most of us are born but few of us nurture.