Success is like a seed: the more you plant, the more you receive.

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't have any.

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't any.

If you're not parenting on purpose, don't be surprised when you get chaos from the children.

If parents were as concerened about raising their children as they are about the outcome of their sitcom or sports game, this nation would thrive.

Parenting the outside of the child is as useless as polishing a rotten apple.

Humility is recognizing we can't give anything to God that He hasn't already given to us.

Don't waste your time complaining, use your energy to create a solution. Even a 10% resolution is progress.

Encourage means to put courage into, and discourage is to take courage away. Don't be a courage thief.

Don't stare at the past or you'll walk right by today's opportunity. Today is God's gift to you.

Divided attention destroys best intentions. Singular focus is the friend to success.

...and when we die we die alone I cry, I cry aloneLike a piece of stone I am thrown into the wavy ocean of lifeto atone...to atoneOnly to atone...

The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.

The life insurance industry is filled with good people who believe in their work and their companies, but who may never have challenged the assumptions underlying their efforts.

I think we grow into ourselves. And unfortunately we do it in the spotlight, so when we make mistakes, everybody knows about it.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.

No one in America fully understands the constantly changing Internal Revenue Code. Agents of the IRS do not, judges do not, congressmen do not, and most assuredly taxpayers do not.

David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.

I wish I were more disciplined.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.