I cannot change others, but I can influence others... we can't change people, but we can and we do influence people, and we do it every single day.

People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.

Love is a choice you make everyday.

Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different.

Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.

Remember that your ultimate goal is for your children to grow up secure in your love, strong in their faith, and with sound character.

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5)

Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever.

If we are to develop an intimate relationship, we need to know each other's desires. If we wish to love each other, we need to know what the other person wants.

Destiny can never be denied. It takes time to unfold .

Never plant a seed that seems good to eyes despite plant a seed that will be a shed in the sunlight.

You're joking, Perce! You are actually joking, Percy... I don't think I've heard you joke since you were-

A human teenager. One of God’s most misbegotten creatures – big like grown-ups and yet dumb like children.

Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you.

Either this guy really liked me, or I was inventing things in my head because I wanted him to like me. I was much too inexperienced to guess which.

I do call upon a little Fish Mooney energy sometimes, believe it or not.

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.