You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.

Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

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.

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.