Listening to our kids with an open heart & mind is the strongest way to build a relationship with them - especially when they're wrong.

If you're using most of your energy to do stuff for your kids, then you'll have that much less energy to just be there for them.

We can easily teach our kids hot to be kind, compassionate and respectful when we are kind, compassionate and respectful to them.

The soul mate we marry can become an "ex, " but the soul mates we have in our children will be ours forever, until the end of our life.

Kids will remember less what we did for them and more how we spoke and reacted to them.

We honor our kids most when, while we guide or discipline them, we give them this gift of unconditional love by accepting them and respecting them for who they are, first and foremost.

We are our own children's "perfect" parents, and within us lie all the simple, yet profound qualities of inner perfection.

Being free means "being free for the other, " because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

Though I knew in my mind that others had felt such loss, this loss was mine, and I felt that no one would ever understand it, and to try to explain the lonliness and pain I felt would be futile.

If you can't Smile for Yourself then Smile for Others

Countries like Jamaica do not have a random program, so they can go months without being tested. I'm not saying anyone is on anything, but everyone needs to be on a level playing field.

If your dreams don't match your actions, you can either change your dreams or change your actions.

No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.

[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.

I don't accept that. I really don't care - I'm going to be like one of these deniers - I don't care what the polls say.

You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries

Peace in the struggle to find peace.. comfort on the way to comfort. And if I shed a tear I won't cage it I won't fear love. And if I feel a rage I won't deny it. (I won't fear love.