If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
You are what you are when nobody is looking.
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.
Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
O, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry. We thank thee for health and remember the sick. We thank thee for friends and remember the friendless. We thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved. May these remembrances stir us to service, That thy gifts to us may be used for others. Amen.
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.
Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such. Maybe we should pause for a moment and hear what some people in the third world countries would like to make them happier. 1. Having enough to eat so when you go to sleep at night your stomach doesn't ach. 2. Having shoes on your feet and any kind of clothing to keep the cold out. 3. Having a roof over your head. 4. Having the hope that you'll be lucky enough to get some kind of an education. 5. Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.
It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself
If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!
Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.
The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
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