Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

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.

Without adversity, there would be no growth, and without growth, there would be no lesson to be learned.

I believe in the magic and in the authority of words

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

Everyone can say 'I Love You' but not everyone really means it, so believe it when you feel it, not when you hear it.

The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.

Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.