Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the "what is next", of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.