Children are not things to be molded, but people to be unfolded.

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it.

Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

You don't raise kids. You raise carrots. You sponsor kids.

It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."

Nancy, every place you go, it seems as if mysteries just pile up one after another.

When I was born I did lament and cry And now each day doth shew the reason why.

Adversities are temporary. What is permanent is what we become by the way we react to them.

If your news must be bad, tell it soberly and promptly.

I make movies based on gut.

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!

When you’re a bed wetter there’s only one group of people you can feel better than, bed shitters, and unfortunately they’re hard to come by.

Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave.

Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.