Here's champagne for our real friends, and real pain for our sham friends.

The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.

Never let the worst of you get the best of you.

Sometimes I wonder which is worse - confrontational people who are afraid of caring or caring people who are afraid of confrontation.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.

When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.

Even though it runs counter to popular belief, Life's critical decisions are usually made in the heart and only later ratified by the brain.

The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable.

Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.

The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.

'No one sits Baby in a corner, ' one of the best lines in movie history.

The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.

I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them.

You can't force someone to learn. You present these beautiful lines that have so much to do with the world today and let them fall where they will.

In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough.

I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

Physical and psychological spaces of an organization work in tandem to define the effectiveness of the people within it

People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.