There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

There is no problem so great it cannot be solved.

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem - it's reality.

Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

The best time to start giving your children money is when they will no longer eat it. Basically, when they don't put it in their mouths, they can start putting it in their bank.

If you count sheep before you go to sleep, are you barrrrr'd from dreams?

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

The fastest surging woman leadership position is heading non-profit organizations. Women are not rejecting leadership positions -- they're rejecting politics.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

We're doing the Twyla, not Twilight, so stop sucking!

I really like being able to laugh at my own jokes.

Don't stop with your first draft.

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.