Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Make your life a mission - not an intermission.

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.

Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.

Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Nothing lasts forever -not even your troubles.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when theyre not so good and sympathizes with your problems when theyre not so bad.

Make your life a mission “ not an intermission.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.

There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.

Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'

Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

I played varsity soccer at Yale and continued playing at Cambridge.

I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for my opinions to join all the other opinions. But you have to be prepared for what comes back, especially if you don't agree with the dominant mythology.

Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do.

I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would've been great. The Beatles changed everything for me, and I wanted to be a journalist for 'Rolling Stone.' I'm a big music fan in a Cameron Crowe way, kind of in a spectator way.

It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.

My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.

I'm trying to be a working actor. I'm not in pursuit of fame. I'm not trying to be in the kinds of films that make you famous like that.

If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.

Toni Morrison was a big influence on my work since I was a teenager, what she did with English. I joke that I think she speaks 20 Englishes simultaneously, that she knows how to do that.

I think there are people who use classical music to say, 'I am better than you, because I know all the rules and you don't.' You're not allowed to have fun or entertain.

As for my stand, I think it has become difficult in our country to be a Hindu and a liberal at the same time.

My key message is be innovative, be ambitious; think global and big on day one.

More Brazilian women earn Ph.D.s every year than do men.

I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'

People do not retire. They are retired by others.