Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.