Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning.

Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.

When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.

We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

And what will bow your shoulders downwill be the vicious and worthless company with whom you will fall into this abyss.

Money amplifies what type of person you are in the world.

False gods - the gods of human understanding - despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they do. But of course this is almost too incredible for us to accept.

Our mantra was simplicity.

Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots firmly into the new soil.

Garbage clutters the house that has no dream.

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

Business is like a wheel barrow. Nothing happens until you start pushing.

Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

These are your beautiful days, Julia Beckett," he promised softly.