Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.

Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blase. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.