What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.

As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.