Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits

Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.

If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.

What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't going to be somewhere else doing exciting and glamorous things.

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was.