My brothers came running up laughing, I think hoping that I wasn’t hurt but enjoying the humor of the moment.

You don’t start out shooting a basketball from 30 feet. You start out by shooting a lay up. You don’t start out throwing a football 60 yards. You start out just making sure you get your fingers on the seams correctly. You don’t start out hitting homeruns, you start out hitting off of a tee.

My phone rang, it was my daughter, she doesn’t call unless something’s up.

It just takes someone willing to help pick up the pieces and put them back together.

I was ready to ground him until the age of fifty and make him eat bread and water for the rest of his life.

"Don’t allow the jerks of this world to live in the apartment in your mind and not even pay rent."

You have to think in terms of connectors and disconnectors. What connects you to people and what disconnects.