The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience and tears.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God- given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Changing one thing for the better is worth more than proving a thousand things are wrong.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Get the hell out and take your friend with you!

The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.

The different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

so let it be written--so let it be done.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.