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.

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.

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.

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

Use meditation and blissful perceptions to create inner peace and world peace.

Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp.

The love of a single heart can make a world of difference.

I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomething s with choices, you're probably going to succeed.

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.

Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.