Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use.

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.

There is no such thing as perfection and it is okay for you to have negative thoughts.

He had a come-and-get-me-baby-I'm-pure-trouble-and-you're-gonna-love-it kind of attitude.

Faith is ... knowing with your heart.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.

Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage.

What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty?

If anybody says they get used to it, you don't.

When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.

What a delightful thing this perspective is!