The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth."

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

"If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart."

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

. . . what women want is what men want. They want respect.