Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

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.

A door jumpsout from shadows, then jumps away. Thisis what I've come to find:the back door, unlatched.Tooled by insular wind, itslams and slamswithout meaningto and without meaning.

Keep on questioning. Keep on searching.

Death stings so harshly, no escape and hiding zone from it.

Everything's about my personal entertainment. The world is my stage. Keep it up- you're becoming a star performer in the show.

Why are all pretty boys insane?

One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.

When you begin to give value to the world, somehow the people you affect will find a way to tell you. Even if it takes a couple of years.

I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.