Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.
Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull.
I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.
We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.
A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it’s not your fault.
If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.
What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.
Just once it might be instructive to pretend you’re accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.
Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.
The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I’m 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.
As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it’s also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.
You start making progress in life when you realize that you don’t always have to resume where you left off.
Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.
Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.
Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in.
We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.
The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.
I’m right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed.
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.
My health plan doesn’t cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year.