In Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro so I was groomed for sports but I wasn't very good so my interests lay elsewhere.

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

You are your greatest asset. Put your time effort and money into training grooming and encouraging your greatest asset.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

When it's over I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.