To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard.

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.

With emotions ranging from fear, grief and anger to happiness and relief, the process of bringing home a child who needs in-home care can be complicated

Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.

They advertise on the radio for food stamps!

Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.

We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.

I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.

Actors never discuss future plans.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

A job training center is not gonna train anybody for the future. What trains somebody for the future is education and passion and desire.