Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem. It is heartbreaking how criticism can wound children and diminish their self-esteem.

Ask not what your community can do for you; ask what your community can not do for anyone else.

All human stories are interesting. You don't put a kid in a show because you need a device. They have a story, too.

I do have to say my daughter, Sunday, said to me [I was being] overprotective, so you must have been a fly on the wall.

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.

The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.

The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills.