Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.

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.

And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.

A teacher's not going to bother being tough on you for no reason it's when they're not paying you attention that you should worry.

I think I am good in the department of body language and fighting, and stuff like that. It's just natural to me, maybe because I love sports.

The desire to be connected with the cosmos reflects a profound reality, but we are connected; not in the trivial ways that astrology promises, but in the deepest ways.

All dread those things they don't understand.

The number one thing I want my videos to be is relatable.

Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men.

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.

I'll bet I'm as old as you are." "I'm older than Sanskrit." "Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper." "I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had only sold a hundred burgers." "You win.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.