The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.

There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance.

If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.

For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted.