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

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.

Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.

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!

So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”

If you don’t value what you have, you’re sure to lose it.

The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.

The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.

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.

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.

Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.

Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you’ve got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can’t speak for my twin sister.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.