Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

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.

Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.

I still love a lot of the guys who just paint

When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are.

The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.

Writing the book automatically made me accept myself and love myself more.

But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill.

For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.

Don't we all have moments we'd rather forget, and thoughts we wished never came to us? We say things too awful to remember.

It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

The soul is known by it's acts.