I've become a master of the apology.

Tess and I have a unique relationship, she is like my younger but way more mature sister.

I've always been a respectful kind of guy.

I try to be respectful.

Respect is not a feeling. It is how we treat another person.

Lewis Smedes sums up the dangers of superficial forgiveness: "We will not take healing action against unfair pain until we own the pain we want to heal. It is not enough to feel pain. We need to appropriate the pain we feel: Be conscious of it, take it on, and take it as our own … I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain.

All our families are broken and marred by the effects of the Fall.

Kindness is wisdom.

More Christian blood has been shed by Christians than by heathens and Mohammedans.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.