You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.

The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the children. He never must say, "Get these kids out of here; I'm trying to watch TV." If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the six o'clock news.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

People say "God will find a way." God can't find a way if you're in the way.

My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at me and said, “You know, I brought you in this world, and I can take you out. And it don't make no difference to me, I'll make another one look just like you.