A child needs encouragement like a plant needs water.

We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential that we prepare them for it.

Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.

We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around us simply by changing ourselves.

A misbehaving child, is a discouraged child

Whoever alters a person's expectations changes his behavior.

Children need encouragement like plants need water

A great many people fall in love with or feel attracted to a person who offers the least possibility of a harmonious union.

Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased.

The complaints which anyone voices against his mate indicate exactly the qualities which stimulated attraction before marriage.

The wish to gain complete possession of somebody is expressed most plainly by jealousy. Jealousy is never a sign of love. It only indicates fear of not being able to hold another person.

...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.

Success is always available to anyone who is willing to pay its affordable price. Stop making excuses.

So much the better. The higher the price you have to pay, the more you will cherish it.

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.

No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds.

The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.

Happiness is not an individual matter.

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.