Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.

I tell my kids, 'I'm your father, not your friend - but I'm also the best friend you're ever going to have because no one is going to care for you the way I care about you.'

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

There's no such thing as quality time; there's only quantity time.

I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a house with a wife and two daughters is, without any doubt, going to go certifiably nuts.

I've been offered 'Celebrity Fit Club', where you have to take off your shirt and get on a scale. I got kids, man. I'm not going to humiliate myself. I'd rather drive a cab.

Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.

David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision.

Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.

I've worked too hard all my life to have my kids control my life.

If you build a wall they won't come.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I wasn't completely alone.

Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.

Because with time, faith, and love...even our scars can become beautiful.

I won't name any names but I'll name just one, David Dein.

Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow.

I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.