I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.

Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.

You have to have confidence in who you are, because you never know who's depending on you.

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

When you're losing, you see what your team is made of.

Children are wonderful but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.

A lot of people have told me real New Yorkers are Mets fans

You need something that no one else is using. And something that is clean enough to play around audiences.

Now as a former welfare recipient, I don't have a problem with expecting people to work to earn money. But where I come from we call that a job, not volunteerism.

Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.

Whenever I get a chance, I'm trying to take the extra base and make them make a play on me. I'm not going to stop looking for the extra base unless the scoreboard tells me.

It is never long before identity is reduced to loyalty.

One finds one's way only by taking it.

Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth.

I think you’re possessed.” “Old news.” “Huh. Anyone I know?” “My dad. It’s a family issue I’m working on.

I could always flip between emotions and be available to suddenly do something new. I think it's a part of playing, and you hang onto it when you're a kid.

We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend Don Juan calls the assemblage point.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

Alongside getting faith out of a heart that is utterly hostile and unbelieving, making a silk purse out of a sow's ear or getting blood from a turnip is child's play.

Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don’t know you're a member until it’s too late to get out.

Expect the Best, Expect Divine Guidance, Expect your Fortunes to Change, Expect a Miracle!