Having Respect for the world is when you allow people to be what they are.

We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the youngest infant as a unique human being, not as an object

When you hold an infant, hold him not just with your body, but with your mind and heart.

Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.

An infant always learns. The less we interfere with the natural process of learning, the more we can observe how much infants learn all the time.

What infants need is the opportunity and time to take in and figure out the world around them.

Do less; observe more; enjoy most.

If infants are ready to do something, they will do it. In fact, when they are ready, they have to do it.

Allow the child to be authentic, to move, to feel the way they move, appreciating them for what they are.

Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them?

Remember, nobody can make another person fall asleep. How to relax and let sleep come is a skill your child, like everybody else, must learn all by herself.

I'd watch her, amazed at just how much a person could accomplish fueled by tea and regret.

God gave burdens also shoulders.

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Mission creep is not unique to Congress. It is endemic to all arms of the federal government.

The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

I get a lot of unasked for sexual confessions.

I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the Montessori method.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.