Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].

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.

Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices.

If you are not able to ‘adjust everywhere’, then even the moksha, that you have in your hand, will go away.

I'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice as a chocolate bar.

As our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea.

If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

I think when you work on a Woody Allen film the actors become a real company, probably more than on any other film.

The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.