Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette.

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.

Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.

Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

Any other foundation will fail, but Christ is a sure and steady rock to build your life on.

Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape.

I've done everything I've done in America with the limitations I have.

I didn't want to be the girl in the group that couldn't do as much as the boys. I'm very competitive like that.

You should know better.ʺ ʺIʹve never known better,ʺ he countered. ʺYou should know that.

It is trust in our vast 'don't know' that allows room for the truth, that allows the next intuition to float to the surface.

Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.