The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

We can't deliver folks from their pits, but we can sure get in there with them until God does.

If you want to win a game of life, there is only one way — you must be unpredictable. Otherwise life will never forgive such a deadly sin.

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.

The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.

a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.