Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children.

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.

This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.

When the choice is between a demanding relationship and a vintage pickup truck, I'll choose the truck every time.

Universal consciousness can never die

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

To dance is human, to polka is divine.

God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down

If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.

One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.