Children live life as a controlled experiment.

The author observes the shift now that children are not a source of labor for the family, that they have gone from employees of the parents to the bosses of the parents.

Even when our children are still young and defenseless, we feel intimations of their departure. We find ourselves staring at them with nostalgia, wistful for the person they're about to no longer be.

You don't have a good story until something deviates from the expected, " says McAdams. "And raising children leads to some pretty unexpected happenings.

What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion

Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive.

The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth.

The phrase "having it all" has little to do with having what we want.

Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.

Couples with children may argue more, the author suggests, because children are a reminder of just how crucial our choices are.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also

What we think is life. What we do just defines it.

Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.What are you running from?What are you waiting for?

Ther is nothing called a great quote, rather the one which makes your heart to take a dip in river Ganges.

Conciseness is the sister of talent.

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.

Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race.

I just need to get more aggressive and let my teammates feel all that energy and all that emotion.

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'