We all can think of at least one kid who had great parents, a great family, and an all-around great childhood...who suddenly went crazy as soon as he left the house for college or adulthood. And nobody can figure out how or why it happened!

I had always been able to make people laugh in school, so I really developed that and worked on it and I got pretty good at it and it turned into a career.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

I think a lot of what is involved in finding a noticer is to watch people and see what fruit people have on the tree. You examine that life and see if it has the kind of fruit you want to produce in your life.

I just think it’s amazing that a person could lose everything, chasing nothing.

A life filled with opportunities and encouragement finds more and more opportunities and encouragement, and success becomes inevitable.

We have to prepare our teenagers and our children for a world away from us. That requires explanations. That requires understanding.