I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

I thought there was no use for me in reading Sun Tzu and Machiavelli because I am neither a warrior nor a politician, but it turned out to be useful when I married

After all, you are a hero and everything.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

I don't really look at myself as a power hitter. I look at myself as someone who drives the ball to the gaps, hits line drives.

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

We take anybody. Come on in, anybody. Just come on in. Not anymore.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.

I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.

There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we were but yesterday, though that yesterday had passed over us unappreciated and unenjoyed.