I will never have greater respect than for the man that realizes he was wrong and graciously admits it without a single excuse.

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.

You can not have peace with just feelings. It comes only about by prayer and being on the journey. Like the wise men, find your peace this Christmas.

Genius by birth, Bipolar by design

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.

Do not practice buddha-dharma with the thought that it is to benefit others.

You are what you think about.

Technology has to be accessible otherwise it enslaves us, and I'm not really in favour of that.

I'm not the most patient of people...

I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.