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

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.

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.

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

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.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Ester would tell her to dance faster, leap higher, to laugh out loud with all the breath in lungs. That’s what the dead would tell the living, if they could—to grab hold of joy whenever it comes.

As high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is God's love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

Of course I have an opinion on many things but I don't micromanage.

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.

When you gaze upon the lovely sight. Of twins, arm in arm, asleep at night. Think not that the house has been doubly messed. But that you, as parents, have been doubly blessed.

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

I'm a big fan of the older vampire movies.

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.