You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
Laughter is an instant vacation.
Dad is a son's first hero and a daughter's first love.
A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men.
Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don’t expose it to the elements. You don’t make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united.