I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.

This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers].

Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life.

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

It only takes 140 characters to toss ones character out the window.

Children are wonderful but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.

Most remember the groundbreaking first in sports few remember the third or fourth to follow in those tracks. That's not downplaying anyone's achievements but rather recognizing that there comes a time when simply being there is no longer good enough for the record books.

You have to have confidence in who you are, because you never know who's depending on you.