Quotes by Marilyn vos Savant

Success is achieved by development of our strengths, not by elimination of our weakness.

Relatively few of us will find the time--or take it--to live an ever enlarging life.

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

Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.

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

. . . what women want is what men want. They want respect.

I'd rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.

If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home.

The magnitude of an action may change not only the strength of its impact, but the direction. If you became a dentist, for example, you would certainly be an asset to our society. But what if everyone became a dentist? Who would bake the bread? Who would build the houses?

Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds.