What this world needs now… more balloons and clowns

Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.

The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.

The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain…for isn’t this what love is? Hurt people tend to hurt other people.

It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.

If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.

Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.

If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.

Change will not successfully happen unless the emotional component is solved.

Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.

Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy

You can never out-give God.

The reason why you can't is because you never tried

Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

The people I find most impressive are generally unknown at the time of their actions and forgotten in history.

All I'm really concerned with is doing my thing.

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.