Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.

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.

You can't defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

Throw dirt on my name, and I still come out clean

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.

If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.

Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat.