The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.

Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.

The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become.

Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.

Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married.

Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

If you are still alive, time is now, reject sin, seek righteousness.

Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.

It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy.

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.

If you look at successful pivots, they almost always are a pivot into something that the founder wanted. Not a random made up idea.

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

If you're doing Plyometrics you can jump higher and run faster and your heart and lungs are going to kick the panties off of anybody else that tries to get out there without it.

We want work and we want honest jobs. Our minds and our hands will be our keep!

The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors.