You are what you are when nobody is looking.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.

If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

It is better to know so much about a few but important things, than to know so little about life, and much about trivial things.

The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first improve yourself.

Joy lurks in every mundane thing, just waiting to be found. Love is impervious to reason. And words are wonderful.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.

If I make a new bag I love, I don't keep it.

There are no great fanfares for the truly great moments of your life. Just dripping taps and the sound of your own footsteps, walking from one room into another

I need you to breathe for me.

I'm not a media darling. I'm forever the outsider, for whatever the reason is.

I started cooking out of middle school depression.