Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.

Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.

Life is relationships; the rest is just details.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad.

Make it your goal to create a marriage that feels like the safest place on earth.

God specializes in impossible situations.

Love is a decision. Not always an easy one.

May God's richest blessings be upon you both today and throughout the year and may those blessings flow through you to touch the lives of everyone you meet.

How do you show up for your relationships? Are you healthy or crippled? Are you prepared or needy? Are you ready to give or too tired to talk?

To learn to read is to light a fire

You wanted to see the world. And yet, all I want is to see you.

You’re a good boy. I wish you didn’t have to be quite so good

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every pebble in the road.

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.

Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.