Be a little less obsessed with how I live my life and a little more obsessed with how you live your own.

The goal was never dependent on the route that took me there. It was always dependent on the heart that got me through whatever route opened itself up to my efforts.

Sometimes to be a good parent... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.

If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied.

A lot of people don't like me. I take that as evidence that I have done something beautifully different or something extraordinary.

People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.

Saturday mornings, I’ve learned, are a great opportunity for kids to sneak into your bed, fall back asleep, and kick you in the face.

It’s time we stand up and demand more of the fathers of this world. It’s time we stop buying into their rationalizations and their sorry explanations. It’s time we give our kids a fighting chance.

Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children.

Fishing is much less about the fishing, and much more about the time alone with your kid, away from the hustle and bustle of the everyday.

I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.

A celestial light appeared to Barrett Meeks in the sky over Central Park, four days after Barrett had been mauled, once again, by love.

Obviously when you're a teen you have no money, so you make, like, three outfits out of one dress. You're like, 'OK cut the arms here. Alright: New party, cut them to here.'

Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.

Empathy is the most powerful weapon [...]

If our pain doesn't destroy us, it just might transform us into truly human beings at last.

It's true, I do like cheering people up.

Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

It's so much more interesting when you're human. I hate making mistakes, but I'm not afraid of 'em.