When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

The ‚Billionaire‘ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

I never fall in love.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

I’ve been very lucky. I come from a very close family.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

What you guys want, I’m for.