Happiness and self-confidence can be the by-products of other things, but they cannot really be goals unto themselves.

But we should open our eyes to the many ways in which hypervigilance keeps them penned in from the more liberated life they deserve to live and that in turn would prepare them for adulthood.

Resilience is built from real hardship and cannot be bought or manufactured.

We’re depriving our kids of the chance to do the work of life for themselves.

Young adults come to resent the people who did the thinking for them.

A sense of purpose is essential for achieving happiness and satisfaction in life.

There is something that's a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That's what it means to become an adult.

Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do but you suck it up and do it anyway, and that's what teaches you humility, work ethic, responsibility, and follow-through.

We're [as parents] striving for an unattainable, inauthentic shell, and ignoring the real nut, the gooey inside: love, laughter, and fulfillment from simple things.

To know ‘who I am and who I am not’ is called Absolute knowledge (Gnan).

And the game of dominoes is much like life: You gotta play the bones you’ve pulled. It don’t matter if you got seven doubles in your damn hand.

Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.

I am always trying to eat the right kind of foods that are going to keep me healthy.

Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

Ideas often last but a day; feelings, dreams almost forever.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.

How truly blessed we shall be if at the price of even very great sacrifices we shall have made God known and loved by one more soul!

Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys.