Never tell a child that something it's too hard

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

Chicago keeps getting all these complete games. Im expecting 50 cent hot dogs.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

Anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.

A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.