We cannot rely on our native tongue if our spouse does not understand it. If we want them to feel the love we are trying to communicate, we must express it in his or her primary love language.

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.

I would choose to live a century in a dark room instead of hanging out with fake friends.

Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.

The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student body going as you would if it was home-and-home. These are full-price tickets.

I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the Twitter feed of my junior-high crush.

girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.

They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.

Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I couldn't read, because reading didn't feel the same.

My secrets are petty but humiliating.

I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

It is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the right way.