If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

Humiliate your enemy is dangerous.

If we want to raise children who will remain faithful to Christ and His Church, they need to see fathers on their knees in prayer.

Once I was running and there was someone on the treadmill next to me who stopped running to answer a question I asked and flew of the back of the treadmill. Being fully engaged has many benefits.

Audiences = expectations. If he thinks you're not watching, he won't need to rebel against your expectations.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.

Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.

The iPod is genius. I have 300.

Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here.

What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I go home.