You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

What power--what importance--lies in the blank lines of an open notebook. Go and fill yours. Then share.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

Basketball. I love it. I can't believe these giants move like kids. They are so flexible.

I got all of my out-of-work time done in the years when I first came to L.A.!

People flourish if they’re praised.

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

If you read to me I could tell you everything that was read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?