Marilyn Vos Savant

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own

I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.