A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.

A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.

Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

It's the family you choose that counts.

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

What really fueled me, and maybe infuriated me, is that nobody believed in me. Nobody. I don't even think I believe in myself.

The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.

I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.