If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

There is no problem so great it cannot be solved.

There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem - it's reality.

Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

The best time to start giving your children money is when they will no longer eat it. Basically, when they don't put it in their mouths, they can start putting it in their bank.

A man with outward courage dares to die

How did I get where I am.” If your answer is anything but dumb luck then you are sadly deluding yourself.

Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.

Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

I don't want to play the fat guy or the friend for the rest of my life

Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.