Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

You must learn to overcome your cowardice, and put God, His principles and the things of His kingdom, that you are called to establish, first in your life

Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?

I fall down I get up I fall down And the while I keep dancing.

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.

The lotus flower is troubled At the sun's resplendent light; With sunken head and sadly She dreamily waits for the night.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Creation is great, and cannot be understood.

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.