The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.

Find the pitch and pace and syllables and words you love to hear. Delight your own senses, and self-romance.

Love people. Use things. The opposite never works.

These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.

Those who flame up in anger against you

I really like natural, warm finishes. I like any of the natural stones, the oiled wood that is kind of a pre-finished flooring. I'm very tactile.

But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.

Let us remember: trials are an evidence of a Father's love.

I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and I use a fork.

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

I want to give my kids the world, but I also want them to appreciate everything, to succeed, to be good people, to enjoy life. This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.