All children accomplish milestones in their own way, in their own time.

We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the youngest infant as a unique human being, not as an object

When you hold an infant, hold him not just with your body, but with your mind and heart.

Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.

An infant always learns. The less we interfere with the natural process of learning, the more we can observe how much infants learn all the time.

What infants need is the opportunity and time to take in and figure out the world around them.

Do less; observe more; enjoy most.

If infants are ready to do something, they will do it. In fact, when they are ready, they have to do it.

Allow the child to be authentic, to move, to feel the way they move, appreciating them for what they are.

Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them?

Remember, nobody can make another person fall asleep. How to relax and let sleep come is a skill your child, like everybody else, must learn all by herself.

You must live everyday of your life or you have wasted that many days of your life ...

A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on.

There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to every time in its history.

History is yet to show us a person who stumbled across happiness while walking on the negative path.

You can't photograph everything.

It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

If you want to meet girls, by far the best method is to carry a baby or a puppy.

Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.