No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

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.

Steam in an open space would just simply scatter in different directions. Steam contained in an engine can move a whole train. Success comes from One-pointedness and Constancy of Aim and Effort.

I'm not the new anything; I'm just Agyness.

The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.

The best 45 years of my life were the 5 years I spent with Ton Jones.

You need to make sure everyone is healthy first and foremost.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

Economics is the continuation of energy/resources by other means.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.