Success is less rare than the courage to attempt it.

It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated future into the forever and sadly lost past. Avoid as long as you can the ultimate indignity: a lifetime achievement award.

It's easier to be old than young. You make just as many blunders, but you've become much more adept at not recognizing them.

The resolve to diet is most easily summoned on a full stomach.

You should quit trying only after two conditions have been met: 1.) You've given yourself a legitimate shot. 2.) Trying is no longer fun.

It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the appreciation of it exceed the pleasure of being able to tell others what to do. There is but one tick on the accuracy scale between 'optimism' and 'denial.'

Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by.