Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

There is no problem so great it cannot be solved.

There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem - it's reality.

Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

The best time to start giving your children money is when they will no longer eat it. Basically, when they don't put it in their mouths, they can start putting it in their bank.

Meditate on the Word within the closed walls of your heart to make it stronger through agape.

The artists are the most powerful ones, the creators, first are the painters, working without words, second are the music composers, and third are the writers.

What's an eBay?" "A mythical place of great magical power." - Jace Wayland and Clary Fray (City of Bones)

Violet, the Dowager Countess: ‘I have plenty of friends I don’t like.

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism.

Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town.

I am growing to love DC. But the core of Sonia is a New Yorker.

Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.

How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?