Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.