Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.

The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first.

How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child's final destiny.

Women are not for using. Women are for loving.

Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.

I believe the time we really look big in a child's eyes is when we go to them and apologize for our mistakes and we say, 'I was wrong. Will you forgive me?'

The problem with guilt is that it cements you to the past.

A sexually fulfilled husband will do anything for you.

I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.

Every child lives up to the expectation you have for him.

That's the way it is with firstborns. Mom and Dad may think they're in charge, but the firstborn knows better, and so does the youngest sibling.

All that is beautiful can only be felt.

The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.

During a heat wave every dude stinks.

Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

Do not seek death, seek destruction.

We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office.

Writing is seduction.

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.