Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.

There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?" Yes? "Your belief in the importance of your marriage.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.

We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.