Sometimes you can't pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward.

Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes.

A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard.

We don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

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.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.