If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all.

And part of growin’ up is learnin’ to see the world through other men’s eyes.

A man will be known by his books.

We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.

Therefore, your mistakes and your failures are blessings; opportunities for the best in parenting. And those who point out your mistakes are not your enemies, but the most valuable of friends.

After years of living with the coldest realities I still believe that one reaps what one sows and that to sow kindness is the best of all investments.

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.

Though you feel you're not where you're suppose to be, you shouldn't worry because that next turn that you take, it will lead you to where you wanna go.

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.

No one should be judge in his own case.

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.