I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

When you start talking about same-sex marriage, you start talking about abortion, and I think those issues are very very important and very interesting and very right for us to talk about, but when we allow those issues to cannibalize all other issues we find ourselves homeless while we debate about it.

You will never understand pleasure without pain.

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.

All of us have not been to a natural prison, but everybody in here has had a spiritual prison.