Andrew W. Mathis

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

She wears her beauty as the sky wears the stars, infinitely deep and forever shining.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there’s a score up on the board.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Every success is the mother of countless others.

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

I don’t believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, young and old shared just a little of what he is good at doing.

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.