There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.

If homes are going to survive, it will be because husbands and fathers again place their families at the highest level on their system of priorities.

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.

Can't you see the Creator of the universe, who understands every secret, every mystery, sitting patiently and listening to a four-year-old talk to Him? That's a beautiful image of a father.

One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.

Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience - what they see, hear, think, and believe - will determine the future course for the nation.

The Lord doesn't always remove the sources of stress in our lives...but He's always there and cares for us. We can feel His arms around us on the darkest night.

My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.

If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and truly laid.

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.

What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds.

War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left

Mothers of America / let your kids go to the movies!

[Pope Francis] is 78 years old and knows that his will be a short pontificate.

You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.

Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.