There are so many responsible, nice, kind guys out there. Why marry a fixer-upper?

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.

Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to see you suffer any more than you have.

Life is too short for it to be used to accumulate a harem of enemies.

Here a tower shining brightOnce stood gleaming in the nightWhere now There's just the rubble in the holefrom "White City

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

At 15, I had to choose a vocational school, and I was delighted, of course, to go to culinary school. But learning the basics was not as exciting as being the chef I am today.

There’s no such thing as too much champagne. Though your head will try to tell you otherwise tomorrow.

I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.

You’re not worth the salt in my tears or the brain power it would take me to even conjure your face. (Aiden)

I am joined with no foot land-rakers, no long-staff, sixpenny strikers, none of these mad, mustachio purple-hued maltworms, but with nobility and tranquillity.

Love don't love nobody got me feeling like, I shouldn't love myself