If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T. S. Eliot

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
T. S. Eliot

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Malcolm X

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller

If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
Jack LaLanne

Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
Jack LaLanne

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.
Jack LaLanne

Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?
Jack LaLanne

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
P. J. O'Rourke

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
P. J. O'Rourke

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.
Clint Eastwood

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.
Gilda Radner

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Plutarch

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
Blaise Pascal

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
Blaise Pascal

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.
Noam Chomsky

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
Lord Byron