You are what you are when nobody is looking.

- Abigail Van Buren

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.

- Abigail Van Buren

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.

- Abigail Van Buren

I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot und…

- Abigail Van Buren

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

- Abigail Van Buren

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

- Abigail Van Buren

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

- Abigail Van Buren

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.

- Abigail Van Buren

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

- Abigail Van Buren