Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No.

My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for The District and CSI: NY.

Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.

I love going to work.

It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry.

No one is accountable anymore for anything.

I lost my parents when I was fairly young.

California is no longer a state, it's a hedge fund.

Nothing gets easier but our abilities get better.

Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt

Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.

Beautiful memories tell our story, and wrap themselves in ribbons of the heart.

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness.

When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.