Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

When you lose someone and it hurts, that's when you know the love was real.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.

I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.

No individual should take the blame for a loss, because no individual should get the credit for a victory.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

...any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.