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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't.”

“Not everything needs to be fixed”

“In the fifty years my parents were married, in the thousands of conversations my dad had with me, it had just never come up. And so there I was, weeks after his death, getting another lesson from him about the meaning of sacrifice—and about the power of humility”