There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

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.

My fingers find his. They are warm, pulsing with genetically altered blue blood, powered by mirror matter.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.

Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.

There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'

It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.