Laura Schlessinger quotes:

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.

Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.

People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

If there's an award for best mother-in-law in the universe, in the future, when my son gets married, I will win that award.

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan; where do you want to put your efforts? I could be richer and more famous, but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value.

We all have to make choices in life.

I climb mountains.

I love revenge.

I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.

There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.

We all get self-centered.

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

I talk every day about doing the right thing.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

There's no point feeling angry at a drunk.

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

There are so many responsible, nice, kind guys out there. Why marry a fixer-upper?

It is attitude, infinitely more than circumstance, that determines the quality of life. Life is often quite tough, challenging us to choose between seemingly esoteric, intangible ideals and getting goodies or good vibes right now. You have character when you most often choose ideals.

Well, I'm a Harley Babe.

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or turning state's evidence). The absence of integrity, honesty, and honor do not always bring punishment or scorn, and can be life-aggrandizing (connivers and cheats often gain power and wealth). Therefore, morality must be its own reward.

Don't talk over me, don't argue with me, just listen.

There is little reason left for society to respect women as it once did. Women get knocked up. They don't marry. They have abortions. They go to bars. They get knocked up again.

There is no such thing in life as no pain and no disappointment.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

...home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is probably because, having had the consistent teaching and support of a family and a community, they have developed strengths and convictions that provide a bridge over the troubled waters of a multitude of challenges and temptations.

I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.

Never sell your soul.

Would you stop hoping? Hope is just postponed disappointment.

Do not blame God for your stupid decisions.

Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.

Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity.

You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman.

I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.

It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

I'm kind of an antsy person.

Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.

I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.

There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.

I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.

I really am a woman at peace.

There are so many ways to talk with the people who appreciate my help.

A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood.

A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself.

A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

Arguing with a man doesn't work.

As women go, so goes civilization.

Because it's possible to do, and you have the right to do it, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Behavior is a symptom. If you look at it like a problem, you're just going to make a judgment. If you look at like a symptom, you can do something about it.

Boys are slobs... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children.

Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home.

Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.

Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].

Depth has one address: fidelity in love....

Distance lasts a day. But Reality lasts a lifetime.

Don't put your nose into somebody else's laundry, if you are not willing to fold your own.

Don't underestimate how fine you are.

Emotions have no I.Q.

Every man knows- you criticize a woman - that's it for sex for the next year.

Everyone has the right to go on a vacation without kids if they want.

Everyone's related to someone who robbed a bank or did something.

Everything I say is true.

Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.

Go do the right thing.

Going into therapy doesn't guarantee poop on toast.

Guys behave like they're naive, but they're not stupid. They know what's going on.

Having a sense of purpose in life is the best way to avoid dispair.

I haven't yelled at anybody today. It's been a slow day.

I know I'm right, and I know you're wrong.

I spent two yours of my life being anorexic, but I would never dream of throwing up - my God!

I think I average one good sulk a week.

If someone has a boy who gets to age 18 without something [a bone] being fractured, that kid has been overly controlled.

If you can't handle the baggage, you'll have to get out of the baggage room.

If you think positively instead of negatively, you'll behave better and you'll feel better.

If you want a weak man, you might as well marry a woman.

If your life is going to be dictated by what's comfortable, your life will stink.

If you're gay or lesbian, it's a biological error that inhibits you from relating normally to the opposite sex.

I'm making an announcement: Not one penny will I give to AIDS anything as long as [public sex is allowed in gay bathhouses]. Not cent one. It's a preventable disease. If you don't want to prevent it, I don't want to pay for it.

I'm not good at debating - I'm much better at pontificating.

I'm quite amused by the attempt to excuse not trying harder, by claiming that perfect is not possible; it may not be, but striving toward it as an ideal is! It is in the act of 'striving' that we demonstrate character, courage, and conscience.

I'm tired of the 'can't win against evil' way. I'm sorry, you cannot. They'll run you over. So that is my one big passion. 'Ten Stupid Things People Do to Let Evil Win' - that will be my next passion book. I am angry.

I'm very fond of food. I get hungry, and I like to eat almost all the time.

In the end analysis, all we have is who we are and the way we have lived our lives.

In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk away.

In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved.

Isn't it nice to know that you can put a worm on your hook and get a fish all charged up?

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

It doesn't matter what you say [to me] after "even though". I never change my mind. Give it up.

It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the morality of a situation. It gets frustrating and demoralizing. This is precisely where character comes in. All throughout history special people have felt compelled to do what they objectively saw as right and good - even in the face of humiliation or rejection or expulsion or torture or death. That is because they believed that certain ideas were more important than individual well-being.

It's a tough world out there, and women can't afford to be weenies.

It's not the worst thing in the world to look different from everyone else.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grateful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having great luck and fortune is not the conduit to a loving and enjoyable life; gratitude is.

Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others through honor and obligation...

Listen carefully, because I don't repeat myself - and if I do, I get testy.

Listen, after almost twenty years of call-in radio, I can tell you that the main thrust of too many lives is an overemphasis on feeling good instead of doing good. Being admired and respected by the self and others has taken a back seat to feeling good, or, at least, avoiding feeling bad. And, oh boy, the excuses some of you can come up with for doing so!

Make believe I'm right.