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.

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

Stress steals the beauty from life.

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now.

Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.

Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.

Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.