If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.

This past Thanksgiving, my father was at the farm, and I had all 11 dogs in the house with a father who never allowed dogs in the house. And he got up to leave the table and came back and Solomon was in his chair. And he says, "This dog is in my chair." And I said, "It's the other way around, you're sitting in his chair."

Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

Be loving to yourself and others will see that love reciprocated. This rule works every time

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

In the end, all you have is your reputation.