God never encourages self-reliance.

We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble.

Believe that God is strong enough to save your children, no matter how you fail.

Idolatry, like all sin, is devastating to the soul. It cuts us off from the comforts of grace, the peace of conscience, and the joy that is to be our strength.

The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful than our sin, and He's strong enough to make us want to do the right thing.

We are partners with our children because we are just like them, dearly loved sinners.

I did my best parenting by prayer. I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing.

I admit that at times my prayer for my children is nothing more than vocalized unbelief aimed at God.

I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.

Idolatry is always subject to the law of diminishing returns.

He who thinks he knows it all knows very little." ~ Dr. MaryAnn Diorio

A bookshelf is a biography written by others.

I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Snow and reflections were beautiful but transient effects and other difficulties were beyond me.

I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.

One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.

As a matter of fact, when people ask where my 'point of view' comes from, it was there in one of the first sketches we wrote for [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis.

That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'