There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are.

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.

This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.

When the choice is between a demanding relationship and a vintage pickup truck, I'll choose the truck every time.

Fail to learn, not the other way around

I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn.

There needs to be an app that edits what I say versus what I want to say.

As I became George professionally and everyone called me George, Yog became the name that people who knew me from before started to use. It became more valuable to me.

It's none of the governments business who comes to, in, on, or from my body.

There's this idea that everybody has to have everything right away... I wasn't the superstar. I had to work really long hours for it.

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen