(mother)" She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air.

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

Fools are those who do not understand, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Take your actions carefully to avoid unwanted results

I know who I want to be and I want you by my side as I become that person.

We're so concerned with the idea of what we ought to be that we fail to take into account the things that make us who we really are.

If there is one thing I have learned, from loving Jessamine and even from the evil tasks you have made me do, it is that all forms of life are worthy of compassion.

And one of the elders of the city, said, speak to us of good and evil.And he answered :You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good .

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.

Taking delight in random encounters that come our way is a wonderful reminder that God is in control.

We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.