If your dreams and goals get derailed, they’re not dead. Derailed simply means off-track. Pick ’em up and put ’em back on again.

before the number changes”.

The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child’s heart is worth.

I am not where I am because of luck. I am where I am because I took risks others weren’t willing to take. The world rewards the risk takers. It always has. It always will.

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.

If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied.

Be a little less obsessed with how I live my life and a little more obsessed with how you live your own.

Dads. It’s time to tell our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to show our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to take joy in their twenty-thousand daily questions and their...

And if you are a mom who has watched your child’s father leave, my heart goes out to you. I also pray that you had no part in it. I pray that you didn’t make...

So you were talking crap about me? Hm. I missed it. I was too busy being fabulous.

I do not see the point in dressing and acting and speaking in a way that makes you feel more comfortable and me feel less comfortable.

Some things are so powerful and so beautiful that to see them will turn your soul inside out.

The goal was never dependent on the route that took me there. It was always dependent on the heart that got me through whatever route opened itself up to my efforts.

Only those willing to truly risk everything will gain everything. No person ever rose to greatness without the willingness to lose it all.

Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It’ll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called “perfection,”...

everyone”. There is nothing that everyone is doing or that everyone is.

If I could give one message to the bullied, it would be this: You are not alone. You are strong. You have a voice. You are beautiful. You are intelligent. There are many kids who...

There are too many people who love me, and accept me, and never try and change me, and who don’t condemn me in the slightest, for me to waste even one moment of my life...

Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve...

Dads. Do you not realize that your child needs to feel your skin on his? Do you not realize the incredible and powerful bond that skin on skin contact with your daughter will give you?...

When someone points out your past mistakes, look at them dead in the eyes and follow with, ‘and I’d do it all again to have the life I have now.

Think about the word mould for a moment. A mould is a device into which one crams and smashes something until it becomes the shape that they desire. Don’t spend your life letting other people...