People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'

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

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.

You have the power. You are the magic wand.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Somehow we've even developed the notion that a woman who seeks to meet her husband's needs is subservient (but a husband who fails to meet his wife's needs is a pig.)