"You eat life -- or life eat you!" A Tahitian saying.

"A lot of people don't know that they don't know." Football coach George Allen.

"You've got to be great, different, or first." Country and Western music star Loretta Lynn.

"You can choose to believe in yourself -- or someone else can choose to believe in themselves -- and relieve you of the opportunity at hand." (The author.)

"Baby, you don't need help. Just pretend!" Richard Burton's response, when Elizabeth Taylor, even then a veteran actress, sought his help for her first Shakespearean part, in "Taming Of The Shrew."

"Live life as a series of adventures -- not as a series of fears!" (The author.)

"If you always do what you always do, you'll always get what you always get."

"I'd like to leave you with one thought: you have plenty of time... and it's already late." The parting words, to his students, of Patrick R. Liles, a former instructor at Harvard Business School -- who died at too early an age, leaving a young family behind.

"A day is a gift that is given but once, and then taken away forever."

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." Anais Nin.

"The trouble with 'getting a life' is making the monthly payments."

"May our failures be many -- for if they are, so will the number, and quality, of our ATTAINED dreams." (The author.)

"And never allow yourself to fail, to take the pressure of 'having to succeed' off of yourself -- for embracing failure is the most costly embrace of all -- for it never removes the 'having to succeed.'" (The author.)

"Some dreams are worth everything. Other dreams are worth nothing. Make the 'some dreams' yours, and the 'other dreams' another's!" (The author.)

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.

"You can 'go home again,' if, by how you treat others, you never leave it." (The author.)