The pattern often has been entrenched since childhood... [abusive people] don't think that there is anything wrong with them because that is the way they were brought up in their family.

People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.

Love is a choice you make everyday.

Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different.

Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.

Remember that your ultimate goal is for your children to grow up secure in your love, strong in their faith, and with sound character.

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5)

Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever.

If we are to develop an intimate relationship, we need to know each other's desires. If we wish to love each other, we need to know what the other person wants.

Every week I want to learn something new. And every week I want to teach someone something new.

Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.

You are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good.

Jamaica is an island that is filled with so much culture.

Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

Maybe I’m weak for music men. Maybe I’m weak, period. But I couldn’t deny I was charmed by his arrogant, fool-ish guise.

And what’s he then that says I play the villain?