Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

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.

A woman might save him from a heart attack, but she'll kill him in every other way.

If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

This may be invading her privacy but I was Death, dammit. I should get some privileges

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

Pearls are always appropriate.

Awareness, one with knowing, is love.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I value most.

The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.