Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.
While parents should always provide shelter from a storm, they should sometimes allow children to play in the rain.
When your woman gives you the silent treatment, say you're sorry, or you'll find out how truly sorry you are when her monologue resumes.
Scold your children, and they will know what is wrong; but correct them with love, and they will know what is right.
Resilience is the ability to attack while running away.
Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.
If you are willing to stir a pot, you better be willing to eat what comes out of it.
This world will slam doors in your face at every opportunity. Be willing to employ a foot when necessary.
It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to wait for you.
Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.
One can rarely achieve greatness on the path of least resistance.
No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul's inner light.
Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.
Look for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself.
Meet every level of frustration with a greater level of character.
If we make every day better than the one before, today will be the best day yet, and the greatest days ever will await us in every tomorrow.
The only true failure is failure to try.
There is no future in waiting for tomorrow.
Never blame others for tracking in mud, until you have checked your own feet.
Worthy goals are consistently achieved by enduring forces of adversity and opposition until they subside.
If you share in a heart-felt sorrow, you can lighten the load of a friend. Sometimes facing the burden together can mend two broken hearts in the end.
When the world grinds you down, bent to tear you apart, cling to what you hold dear, and stay true to your heart. For the world has a way to dismantle your cause, to exploit what you lack and expose all your flaws. But when every layer of your being is gone, and it seems there's no point anymore to go on; just remember one thing, at the end of the day, when you have self-respect they can't take that away.
Add a task to a busy person's plate, and it will get done in short order. Add a task to the plate of someone with nothing to do, and it will never get done.
Reputation is generally proof of how little one knows about a person.
In every difficult situation there is a door to opportunity for which optimism is the only key.
