Doubt is the brother of shame.

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.

A writer always writes.

A holy life is not a life empty of sin, but a life full of God's presence.

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.

I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.

This is my motto: Rejection is God's protection.