The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique.

There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.

None of us is born thinking we are ordinary. Feeling special is an essential part of the human birthright. If you don't think you are special, you won't seek to contribute your gift to the world.

Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness.

In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.

Ten percent of life is what happens; the other 90 percent is what you do about it.

The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.

Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light.

My parents divorced when I was a boy and I have since devoted my life to healing families, which is what my TV show 'Shalom in the Home' is all about.

Women want to be chosen.

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.

You give me the duty to write about love

I don’t care who you love, what you believe, how you look, where you’re from or what you do. If you are a good hearted person, you’re good in my books!

She was almost too beautiful. Maybe that sounded stupid, but there wasn't another way to describe it.

The problem with beauty is you will always be in trouble, when you don’t know what beauty is.

Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And very often people get offended by it.

The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

Miracles happen all the time. We're here, aren't we?

Rihanna and makeup gets me into LaLa Land.

I started singing at the age of 4, at my grandfather's church in McKinney, Texas. It was called Greater Hope Holiness Church. My first solo was "Jesus Loves Me."