"Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids."

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other."

"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage."

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."

"It is a radiant truth that true innovation is born when curiosity dares to question long-settled assumptions — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a enduring truth that wisdom is the quiet art of recognizing what can be changed and releasing what cannot."

"Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth."

"Where compassion abides, fear and resentment lose their dominion. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."