People, like water, seek their own level.

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.

The author concedes that the body of Christ may often judge wrongly, but he says that the judgment of the body as a whole is more sound that is one's ability to judge self objectively.

He has the etiquette of a frog

Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service....

Definitely, there's a lot of strength in depth in my division.

I don't want to pierce anything. I think it's outdated. Belly rings and all are, like, old.

Give until tears stream down your eyes.

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.