Favorite Quotes

  • Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain
  • There are two kinds of people – the takers and the givers. The takers sometimes eat better, but the givers always sleep better.
  • It is an art to catch a husband, but it is a hard work to keep him. – Madam Bovary, French novelist
  • Live a good honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
  • Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
  • A good teacher knows how to teach, a better teacher knows how to explain, and the best teacher inspires students.
  • The finish line is only the beginning of a new race.
  • Everybody can say anything about you. You cannot control it. But, you can control your response. – President Bill Clinton on the Larry King Show, 2006.
  • Tell me and I will forget, show me and I will remember, engage me and I will understand. Confucius (551-479 BC)
  • To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
  • Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
  • Keep friends close to you, and enemies even closer.
  • It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice.
  • Moralists have no space in art.