Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.
Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.
Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.
For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.
I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.
Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
When I go to see live music I tend to want to really listen to it, so when people get up and dance it's really irritating.
Man is what he believes – believe in yourself
My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.
One of the leading theories of why electroconvulsive therapy is effective for most severe depressions is that it causes a loss of short-term memory - patients feel better because they can't remember why they were sad.