But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.

Today is the only guarantee you get.

Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality.

I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the biggest impediments I had to becoming a successful writer is I had a very happy childhood.

I love having a president who I think is smarter than I am.

Now, a lot of people are challenged by the fact that a record number of people in their sixties have living parents, and a record number of people in their sixties have kids who may still depend upon them.

Obama doesn't seem like a burger and a beer kind of guy. I have to say, I don't find that problematic at all.