Other people do not owe me their availability.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

Should she slam his head into the bar or toss her beer on him? Damn shame to waste good beer.

He knew what the thing was going to do next. It was going to climb the hood slowly, toying with them before crushing in the windshield and eating them all alive.

My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.

Once the public loses confidence in a president's leadership at a time of war, once they don't trust him anymore, once his credibility is sharply diminished, how does he get it back?

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

There's a saying in Africa: To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.

But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention

People say Yogi (Berra) is a strange guy, and I've heard Yogi say some funny things. But he has a beautiful wife, he's rich, and he's famous. I don't see anything strange about that.

The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.