I will never make my family perfect, but I will make it better everyday.

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.

My cup was already brimming before I met him —after it runneth over.

Achievement: The death of an endeavor and the birth of disgust.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

She likes you, she just doesn't understand you.

The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.

The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there

What we want is to make sure that people don't go through what I'm going through ... and we have to understand that even since Luke's death, children have been killed.

To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.