I have learned that trying to control other people’s opinions of you is the fastest possible route to unhappiness.

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.

How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.

And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

I really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don't want possessions to hold me down.

I will bear this pain for you,” he swore. “If one of us has to bleed, it will be me. It’ll always be me.

The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.