“Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.”

“It comes from within.”

“The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.”

“If I am intellectually interdependent, I realize that I need the best thinking of other people to join with my own.”

“churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.”

“Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism -- anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.”

“There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.”