We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

You have the power. You are the magic wand.

My best way of making someone admit to something's wrongness is to have them imagine that thing done to them. Suddenly then it all becomes clear.

It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the morality of a situation. It gets frustrating and demoralizing. This is precisely where character comes in. All throughout history special people have felt compelled to do what they objectively saw as right and good - even in the face of humiliation or rejection or expulsion or torture or death. That is because they believed that certain ideas were more important than individual well-being.

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood".