The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel.

We must teach our children that the real measure of their success in life is how much they'd be worth if they had absolutely nothing.

Kids ... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't even there simply because of how they see themselves.

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe.

In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.

The iPad! What is better designed than that? I read magazines on it, I play Scrabble. I use it for everything.

In the end, love wins. It does win. We know it wins. When a person dies, love isn’t turned off like a faucet. It is an amazingly resilient part of us.

But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

Its no secret that the Democrats and liberal media would love to take away our guns and mandate every aspect of our lives, but I refuse to let them get away with that.

After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made...