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

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

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

I also think my dad would be reminding me that kids — more than anything else — need to know their parents love them. Their parents don't have to be alive for that to happen.

I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would have painted for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed music. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured.

Are you a Tigger or an Eeyore?

It's interesting, the secrets you decide to reveal at the end of your life.