“Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.”

“If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity”

“Kids need to know their parents love them. Their parents don’t need to be alive for that to happen.”

“Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes.”

“I love all three of my kids completely and differently. And I want them to know that I will love them for as long as they live. I will.”

“Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that”

“self-steam ? He knew there was really one way to teach kids how to develop it : You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they can do it, and you keep repeating the process.”