Resilience is built from real hardship and cannot be bought or manufactured.

But we should open our eyes to the many ways in which hypervigilance keeps them penned in from the more liberated life they deserve to live and that in turn would prepare them for adulthood.

We’re depriving our kids of the chance to do the work of life for themselves.

Young adults come to resent the people who did the thinking for them.

A sense of purpose is essential for achieving happiness and satisfaction in life.

There is something that's a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That's what it means to become an adult.

Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do but you suck it up and do it anyway, and that's what teaches you humility, work ethic, responsibility, and follow-through.

Happiness and self-confidence can be the by-products of other things, but they cannot really be goals unto themselves.

We're [as parents] striving for an unattainable, inauthentic shell, and ignoring the real nut, the gooey inside: love, laughter, and fulfillment from simple things.

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.

And I'm stuck in it with no way out. I love you, and I can't stop, and you don't even care!

Through discipline comes freedom.

If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

Our grocery store now has self-checkout, for your convenience. It's like getting punched in the throat, for your comfort.

I have been very concerned about media bias and the total dishonesty of the press. I think new media is a great way to get out the truth.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

George W. Bush, who said to Pope John Paul II, Give us a visit, and bring the missus. Never got a dinner!

Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!