Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

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.

Persistence drives the achievement of the desired outcome for reality.

The search to know has always been characterized by the need to doubt, the need to be critical, including the need to be self-critical.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older.

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?

Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.

When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.