Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.

Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap.

All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.

Never make a decision until you have to.

If you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.

Sometimes, all you have to do is ask.