“Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.”

How should they answer?

Kids grow up awfully fast these days,”she said. “You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from ‘Dear Abby’ instead of going to Mom and Dad.

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.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself

The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.

It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It’s cruel, it’s brutal, it’s inhumane, and most people don’t want it.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

I love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them?

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

My sister’s also very, very competitive but she is more concerned than I am with being liked. So she hides it away. I try to make my competitiveness part of my charm.

I was really good at being a bad guy; I like that role. Not being bad to people – just talking bad.

That’s the beauty of being a straight-to-DVD star. It really helps you stay under the media’s radar.