No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event.

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.

It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.

No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

We need to be smarter than our smart phones and realize the people we are with are more important than the people we aren't with, and way more important than the strangers we hope will tweet and like and share and Instagram whatever we're sending out into the cybersphere.