One can rarely achieve greatness on the path of least resistance.

Assertiveness is most effective when least applied.

It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to wait for you.

Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.

Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.

In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

A cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away.

Who lives inside your head? The hero of your story OR The victim of someone else's?

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

When you put the pads on...it's time to make plays.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?

I'm hoping that these series, that originally aired in the 80's and 90's, prove to be as entertaining online and on portable devices as they were when first broadcast on network television.

The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.

If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.