Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

Don't confuse wealth with success.

When lending people money, be sure their character exceeds their collateral.

I've learned that regardless of color or age, we all need about the same amount of love.