You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.

When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?

Emotionally, a person can become so negatively driven that they don't respect the privilege of being on this Earth without their mother and their father. They may say it doesn't bother them, but there is something in us about those who are a biological part of us and don't care. People in that situation stop hearing the other voices that love them, hold them, trust them and tells them how great they are. They're focused on that one person who isn't answering them.

Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally.