Marriage is not a reform school.

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.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.

Experience is not the enemy: It is the hubris that is often a by-product of experience that is our greatest enemy.

One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.

When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything.

Childhood. I wish I had something to complain about.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.

Holland seems like a quaint toy.

A father, finding time for what is most important is the true marker of a successful person.

You don't know when inspiration is going to come. But you have to be aware of what's going on around you, so that at any moment, when inspiration happens, you're ready for it and you interpret it.