A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.

Show respect to people who don't deserve it. Not as a reflection of their character, but of yours.

Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.

There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.

Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what gives meaning to life.

Pray when you feel like worrying. Give thanks when you feel like complaining. Keep going when you feel like quitting.

Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself; not what's leftover after you have given your best to everyone else.

A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other.

Every day is beautiful when you're holding hands with your best friend.

Don't use social media to impress people; use it to impact people.

Real love is when you are completely committed to someone even when they are being completely unlovable.

Sometimes the steepest, most challenging and most rewarding paths in life are not meant to be walked, but crawled.

My best days are Monday through Friday, and Saturday and Sunday." "Ian, " Wesley noted, "that covers the whole week." Ian nods his head. "Pretty much.

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.

Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

I grew up spear-fishing, so I've always had a breath hold.