Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

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.

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man".

I would like people to remember of me, howinexhaustible was her mindfulness.

All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me.

Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.

If you purchased the latest Joss Stone CD, what you're saying is that you're an employee of VH1.

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!

The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.