When I started it [non for profit], I thought, I'm not smart enough to do this. I had no experience in management, no experience in administration, no experience in nonprofit; but then this phrase came into my head: I only have to be smart enough to find people who are smarter than me; I only have to be smart enough to recognize who knows more than me.

You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.

Whatever the situation, just take it for what it is. You don't have to make it worse or better than it is. It just is what it is. Always deal with the honesty, the truth of what something is, and then you've got all kinds of choices.

Since I'm not sure of the address to which to send my gratitude, I put it out there in everything I do.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you.