Parenting is a sacred responsibility with the sobering reality, of raising scholars or scars.

— Tom Althouse

Pause, breathe, and lift, undefined, what is possible. Let the feeling of celebration come upon you, even if you do not comprehend cerebral reasons to justify it. For from that center, it will generate its own, able to carry you, until the original ones manifest, from that very portal you chose to fashion, unrestricted.

— Tom Althouse

Perseverance is the steady pathway toward prevailing.

— Tom Althouse

Sip tea and coffee with those who say you can, politely stuff with cookies any who say you cannot. Because the stuff they are feeding you, be it the latter, looks strangely a bit like the little chocolate chips.

— Tom Althouse

Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which was already there.

— Tom Althouse

Sometimes it's, run don't walk! Like when you're going to the arms of a loved one.

— Tom Althouse

Sometimes signed wings will fly with greater purpose.

— Tom Althouse

Sure all life's highways at some point must end, so I plan to ride it in style and plummet in a swan dive when the pavement runs out... And hopefully leave behind artistically that which may make other roads an even better ride...

— Tom Althouse

Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.

— Tom Althouse

The foundation for security and well-being of a family is often built from a parent going extra miles to achieve it, doing mundane tasks to ensure it, standing up to injustice to protect it, and having the heart to listen and then express through embrace and action to each member of that sacred Ghana how much they are deeply valued, unconditionally. And all the while, from birth, encouraging the other members to do the same. And often, from that foundation you have a home, well-founded.

— Tom Althouse