Quotes from Wes Fesler

Make it a practice to kick yourself for every time you answer your children with the words NOT RIGHT NOW.

There can be no true discipline without love...only compliance.

Mankind has the genius to bring all the world together and the ignorance to fight upon arrival.

Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least.

Believe in who you are, and trust in what you know is true. Your choices are reflections of the goodness within you.

Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.

Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.

The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.

If there can be no love without hate, then I love to hate hate.

Scold your children, and they will know what is wrong; but correct them with love, and they will know what is right.

The only way to have room enough in our hearts to truly love others is to purge all hatred, and replace it with love.

There is no room for exclusion in family...only love.

Real friends tell you the truth...even when you want them to shut up.

Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.

Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.

The value of hatred and ignorance is found in the fact that without them we could never truly appreciate wisdom and love.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds.

One can never win an argument with ignorance.

Family is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art.

By persistent hard work you will rise to success, but ultimately your accomplishments will be measured by how you treated your loved ones on the way up.

Look for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself.

There is nothing more perfect than doing your best.