My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?

Revolutions go not backward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.

David D. Burns

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

Paul Prudhomme

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

Irvine Welsh

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Jean Rostand

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work a

Ernest Hemingway

There is good news tonight.

Gabriel Heatter

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Albert Schweitzer

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

Walter Winchell