Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.

Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.

It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.