If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.

The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make.

Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.