Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.

Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.

Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.

Faith is a footbridge that you don't know will hold you up over the chasm until you're forced to walk out onto it.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.

I hate Mondays - I hate that feeling you've got to get yourself up.

Trust me-the day I'm not into football, I'll walk away.

We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves

I've never smoked crack. I've never done most things, drug-wise. But I assume that the experience I had watching Lost is the experience that crack addicts have smoking crack.

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

Life consists of nothing but exceptions.