Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.

~Lawrence C. Coughlin

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

~Henry David Thoreau

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

~R. D. Laing

Maybe you could be my intern, and in turn, I could show you  how to cook up summer in the winter.

~Kanye West, Gone

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.

~Voltaire

The easiest thing of all is to deceive one’s self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.

~Demosthenes

Thinking or talking about the past unnecessarily is one of the ways in which we avoid the present.

~Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master’s fame.

~Orison Swett Marden

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.

~Moliere

In my best Bill Walton voice:

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

~Bill Walton

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

~Unknown

Can you tell I’m reading Jack Welch?

Winning companies embrace risk taking and learning.

Jack Welch, Winning

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

~Jack Welch

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

~Oprah

Look, in my  opinion the best thing you could do is find somebody who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood/bad mood, ugly/pretty, handsome, what have you. The right person’s still gonna think the sun shines out your ass. That’s the kind of person that’s worth sticking with.

~The dad on the movie Juno.

This was on a PowerPoint slide in my business ethics class, and it’s very true:

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

~Maimonides

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in.

~Lyndon B. Johnson of J. Edgar Hoover

Life is tough, but it’s a lot tougher when you’re stupid.

~Unknown

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

~Noel Coward

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

~Aeschylus