Marriage isn't just a choice. It's choosing the same person a million times.

An old meaning of the word 'restoration' is to find someone with a royal bloodline who has been removed from the throne and then restore the person to that throne - to a position of honor.

Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

It's my job to manage my heart so that I can respond to you in love and cast out fear in our relationship.

No one else can steward the fire inside of you because only you are in charge of it.

One of the symptoms of being free is you begin to dream.

In being vulnerable, we reach for our greatest need while risking our greatest pain.

Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.

The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement

Powerful people can love without being loved back.

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying?" (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.)

i don't care about the ones who i like anymore but i start caring about ones who really like me

How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?

The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.

You’re the only person who really knows me. The only person I feel I truly know myself.” “Knowledge isn’t love,” I contradicted.

It is the population which decides when it's time for a leader to leave, not foreign powers.

God-forsaken is beautiful, too.

It's much easier to have something that's absolutely definite and has a definite identity, rather than a really generic role.

Openness to my own dreams puts me in touch with the oldest, most human aspects of who I am; it helps me find my place in the community of man.