Women are not for using. Women are for loving.

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.

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.

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

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.

I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness.

It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

To be a part of a show that makes that not feel demanding and makes it feel natural and makes you want to go to work, every day, and be excited about it, from what I hear, that's pretty rare.

Conceal thy domestic ills.

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.

The Christian church does not need more popular preaching, but more unpopular preaching.