Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

"Let love be the yardstick which measures the depth, of understanding for those we truly care about." - Tom Baker

When my own son was 12, we didn't want toy guns in the house. So he just picked up a stick and went, 'Bam! Bam! Bam!' That's the testosterone of a 12-year-old boy.