Cherish every season of life; for without coldness, there is no comfort in warmth, and without darker days, there is no joy in light.

Assertiveness is most effective when least applied.

It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to wait for you.

Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.

Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.

In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

A cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Each time you turn your life issues over to God and allow Him to lead, you build trust in Him.

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

The price of freedom keeps going up, but the quality keeps deteriorating.

I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

I am from the Mediterranean area, I have to feel everything. I am a physical person, but I guess that things that you cannot touch and cannot see are also touchable and visible—light, poetry, music.

Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.

The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed, afraid of losing control of the car

I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s.