It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.