Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

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.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

You dance?”“I think that might be overly optimistic, ” he said. “I do something. I’ll try not to hurt you.

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

You look good wearing my future.

Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?

Everyone is against me - except the people!

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

You must not look in that mirror at your doughy legs and flat feet, for today is about dreams and illusions, and unfiltered natural daylight is the enemy of dreams.