If you want a weak man, you might as well marry a woman.

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.

Strength is leading when you just don't want to lead.

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.

If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form

Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.

Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.

God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.

I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.