An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

Wake up and smell the coffee.

Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.

So . . . I am the someone you were speaking of earlier?Yes. You're my someone.You're my someone, too.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

Fate. Sounds romantic.”“You must not know anything about mythology, then, Mr. McQueen. In all the old myths, the Fates were the villains.

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

All your beliefs, they're just that. They're nothing. They're how you were taught and raised. That doesn't make 'em real.

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people

Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

I'd just stepped out of the kiddie pool and into the deep end, with no floaties. And drowning was not an option.