The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie.

Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognized them.

Experience is pure gold. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted.

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Every marriage is happy. Its the living together afterward that's the challenge.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything before you go to bed.

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.