Commitment is taking the first step, even if it means falling the rest of the way down.

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.

The best investors are visionaries—they look beyond the present. By the same token, vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

The truth is that everybody has a past and everybody has an ex.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that Ive always wanted to make since I was a kid.

Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death.

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

Can we outrun the heavens?

Love is in the giver, not the gift.