A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.

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

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn't really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper.

If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.