Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.

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.

You are either the person you were or the person you are, eventually you have to let go of one

To keep a warm heart in a cold world is the real victory.

There had only ever been two roads home: there was the long road and there was the sea road, and tonight I would take the sea road.

Irony is the kid who steals music and is stolen by the music.

Is mine fat!

What power--what importance--lies in the blank lines of an open notebook. Go and fill yours. Then share.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.

It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.