You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.

Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.

Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values. This week, the equation was twofold: female infidelity twice as bad as male abuse, the life of a woman half as valuable as that of a man. The killing of the woman taken in adultery has a long history and survives today in many cultures. One of those is our own.

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together.

You're like a cake when you're young. You can't rush it or it will fall, or just turn out wrong. Rising takes patience, and heat.