Gene Blaize: You boys are a regular family business.
A wound inflicted by a friend does not heal.
A friend is worth more than a brother.
The road to a friend's house is never long.
To a friend's house the road is never long.
An old enemy never becomes a friend.
Of everything else the newest; of friends, the oldest.
No road is too long in the company of a friend.
Over-intelligent people can't find friends.
A rock offered by a friend is like an apple.
A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing.
Short judgments make long friends.
To see a friend no road is too long.
Over the bottle many a friend is found.
Here’s another example of the difference in our worldviews. A family in my sister’s neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son were diagnosed with cancer. When Catherine told me...
For every 100 women who earn a bachelors degree, 75 men do so. For every 100 American women who earn a Masters degree, 66 American men do so. For every 100 females, ages 20 to 24, who commit suicide, 624 males do so. For every 100 women, ages 18 to 2...
One of the things that happens in the world is that people try to conflict. Whereas in the home, you can't. You'll end up getting divorced or becoming estranged from your kids. Keep in mind, the hardest part of any negotiation is agreeing to start it...
If you turn into a dog, be sure to choose a rich family.
I now know for certain that my mind and emotions, my fix on the real and my family's well-being, depend on just a few grams of salt. But treatment's the easy part. Without honesty, without a true family reckoning, that salt's next to worthless.
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another and building a successful family is like building a home. A successful family based on unity, forgiveness and love takes careful planning, but it's worth every moment.
[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.
