The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O, great sage,' he says, 'tell me the meaning of life.' The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, 'Do you have any other questions, my son?' Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, 'You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?'

The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were.