If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.

If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.

You are what you are when nobody is looking.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

I shall not be afraid of a calamity. God is my defender.

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, "Oh, that's me."

"Come on," I said, taking his hand. Clutching the afghan with the other hand, he trailed down the hall after me, a snow white giant in tiny red underwear.

In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations.

Even if everyone is doing it, wrong is never right

I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe.

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.