When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

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.

Isn't that the only way to curate a life? To live among things that make you gasp with delight?

I don't care how impossible it seems.

Revenge was a dish best eaten cold, but eight years between was arctic.

From generation to generation, America should never be the same country.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

We have to get back to the spiritual law if we are to survive.

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.