Who do you want to surround yourself with? People who can pull you up to their level of greatness? Or people who will happily pull you down to theirs?

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.

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

I never fall down. I always fight.

May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.

The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

A guy who hates his job isn't going to be too charming at home.

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

I don't think anybody was ever up 6-2 and would lose the tiebreaker

Once you freeze all the way through to your soul, you will never feel warm again.