Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes..

If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders..

What good is love if you never ask anything of it?.

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit..

A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world..

The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it..

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James..

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable..

A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership..

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work..

Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true..

Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in..

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know..

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own..

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct..

The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it..

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes..

A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten..

It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past..

Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be..

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends..