Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.