You can't control the cards you're dealt, just how you play the hand.

A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't.

When we're connected to others, we become better people.

Be willing to apologize. Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I'm sorry that I hurt you. 3) How do I make it better? It's the third part that people tend to forget. Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.

Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better

But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her. I'd always thought the father/daughter thing was overstated. But I can tell you, sometimes, she looks at me and I just become a puddle.