I believe that love–not imitation–is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can’t.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling…and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and...

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.