The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life..

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tr….

Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the l….

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it..

We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped b….

I would love to do something with Coldplay..

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together..

Live in the precious present..

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized..

I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles..

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, ….

The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world..

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children..

You have to learn to work and search, not expect instantly to find..

Time must be explicitly managed, like money..

I was never trained for anything.

Learning is the making of meaning..

A place where we all go can't be bad..

That best academy, a mother's knee..

Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family..