Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.

No matter how well you do, no matter how successful you are, they're always going to criticize you.

Never give up on your child. But also, you have to love your child.

Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.

What I do with my kids is I tell them I love them every day, but also I tell them the truth.

I thought guys were complicated. Maybe they are. But maybe they're easy and it's really me who's complicated.

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.

I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team.

It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.

Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can never be reached?

Rage is to writers what water is to fish.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

And I’m yours,” I tell him. “Forever and always and then some.