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Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

From Patricia Heaton

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

From Patricia Heaton

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

From Patricia Heaton

Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.

From Patricia Heaton

But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

From Patricia Heaton

Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.

From Patricia Heaton

Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.

From Patricia Heaton

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