We're [as parents] striving for an unattainable, inauthentic shell, and ignoring the real nut, the gooey inside: love, laughter, and fulfillment from simple things.

Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do but you suck it up and do it anyway, and that's what teaches you humility, work ethic, responsibility, and follow-through.

Young adults come to resent the people who did the thinking for them.

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

It wasn't just that we were together; we were truly a family. There was always laughter.

An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life.