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

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.

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers.

Ah to build to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

To lose Is to learn.

Don't be fooled...If they gossip to you, they'll gossip about you.

When you are in the field of creativity, you lose track of time. Only the flow exists.

My parents never really lecture me.

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.

Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

Sometimes you go through those phases where you take your parents for granted, but I really do appreciate everything my mother's done because I know I wouldn't be here if it weren't for her.