Distance lasts a day. But Reality lasts a lifetime.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

Awoke to find three vultures sitting on the fence. Realizing they were a portent of impending death I shot them.

If you have to beg someone to love you, then you have absolutely no business with that person.

How could she understand it then——that one of her greatest blessings would come only through her greatest wound?

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.

I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

One of the things about a great team is that the whole exceeds the sum of its partners.