Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters.

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.

Always fare well to delay your farewell .

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.

Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.

Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

You can't write poetry on the computer.