There is no future in waiting for tomorrow.

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.

My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked, A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself.

I am enjoying my life because things aren't going the way I planned.

The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind.

Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.

You just have to get one misstep - that's an easy way to fall into caricature. Bad caricature.

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

There are worlds beyond anything you can imagine; there are joys beyond anything you have experienced. There are ecstasies that are undreamed of, I assure you.

I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.

If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.