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.

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.

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.

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

You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.

[T]he most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing--such as making love.

I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

I think that the people in Indiana want to see more jobs, more opportunity. And they want to make sure that Washington listens to them.

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

Don't ever rob a bank. Enjoy life. Have fun. Choose to be happy now; don't wait until you're 'successful,' because honestly, I was as happy when we were unemployed and scrounging around for a buck.

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.