If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If he lives with hostility, he learn s to fight. If a child lives with shame, he learn to fell ashamed.

Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.

Schedule time for focused effort.

At the end of the day, we're all striving to be touched, somehow.

The nice thing about being an adolescent is being able to make mature decisions when you need them and being able to just flow alone with life when you don't.

The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.

Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.

The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible.

Courage leads starward, fear toward death.

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.