Thirteen Fortune Cookies

1. Are you more trapped by the way the world sees you, or by the way you see the world seeing you.

2. At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

3. Ideas are funny little things. They won’t work unless you do.

4. A “No” uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a “Yes” merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

5. You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You’ll learn a lot today.

6. We will be known by the tracks we leave behind.

7. There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.

8. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

9. Always behave like a duck – keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.

10. The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.

11. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

12. One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody’s listening.

13. When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers.