Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.

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.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.

We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.

Caffeine dehydrates the brain and body.

Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

I admire the women who can have babies and jump right back to work. As a nursing mother, I couldn’t sit there and just pump all day. I needed to be close to my baby.

Everything you know, all the things that you thought were important, drift into the background. And even things that were important really come to the fore and he's one of them.

It's not healthy to be jealous.

I think it would have been much better if Newton had contemplated how the apple got up there in the first place!