A parent's best intentions are no substitute for attention.

Assertiveness is most effective when least applied.

It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to wait for you.

Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.

Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.

In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

A cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away.

Ram wanted to marry a woman in front of whom he would be compelled to bow his head in admiration. P.210

I was not a name I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me.

Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.

My mother taught me that family comes first. It is engraved on my heart.

Whenever anyone, Buddhist or not, sees a Temple or an image of Buddha they receive blessings.

The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious.

When your holding a double barrel shotgun use both barrels.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

To want not to want, you'll tie yourself in knots. So this is why the Tibetans always say, just relax the mind and open.