There is no almost in giving your all.

Assertiveness is most effective when least applied.

It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to wait for you.

Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.

Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.

In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

A cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away.

You don't need to change the world

What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths.

I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

There’s not a better feeling than when you have found that moment of balance and harmony when both running and life come together. Then you know why you run and that you couldn’t live without it.

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.