Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

Wake up and smell the coffee.

Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.

He tried to sleep, but his head was filled with the faces of lunatics, their palsied hands, their shattered eyes.

The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

My mom has obviously had a powerful influence on my life and her voice can describe certain things that I couldn't see in myself.

Racism is a common thread among people of color, even though each experience with it is different.

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

Good performance is about what you take in, not what you put out.

I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.

If a Muslim becomes a non-Muslim and propagates his/her new religion, then it is as good as treason. There is a Death Penalty in Islam for such a person.