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

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

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.

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.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better?

I'm dying, and I'm having fun.