Grown-up people can wait.

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.

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

In truth, Liesel was a prisoner too, just held by different kinds of bonds.

If you are good at something never do it for free but if someone needs your help and deserve the help do it for free you will get respect..

When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done.

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.

...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.