It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.

Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.