I use an app called ChoreMonster. The kids earn points for brushing teeth or picking up the dog poop. It's genius.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.

I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.

Baltimore is a great place.

I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.

Success is getting up one more time than you fall down.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door!

Mythic imagination can break the spell of time and open us to a level of life that remains timeless. Myth is not about what happened in past times

Only God knows when the alarm will sound, ending the work and ministry of evangelism as we have known it.

Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.

Honesty that can be trusted and respected is a very fragrant flower in the life of a Christian.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.