No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.

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.

Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.

Inside, my soul is curled tightly bearing the burden of massive sins from another life. And my eyes look far at the hell around me... a sharp grin tugs at the corner of my lips.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

I don't write for a particular audience.

The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.

What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.

I love fashion, but I don't come from a background of loving clothes, and I remember feeling badly dressed from a young age.

We were all given our opportunities to be ourselves. A little bit of ourselves.

Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

I know the commitment that TV requires but it's nice to come to work and have fun.