It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.

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.

Allow yourself the Freedom to Fail before you see Success Sail!-RVM

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.

To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.

I do not add a penny to the national debt.

I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.

Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.

The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one.

Glances are the first billets-doux of love.