Strong families use the word "we" a lot, but "I" is never forgotten. Family members know they have the freedom to go off on their own, even if the direction is one that "we" have never followed before. The family message is, "We're behind you, so you can be you."

Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.

If you change nothing, nothing changes.

The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.