If you are a parent it helps if you are a grown-up.

A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.

Once we are truly for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people.

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. You're probably doing things you don't want to do.

Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind.

All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.

Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on.

If grandparents want to have a meaningful and constructive role, the first lesson they must learn is that becoming a grandparent is not having a second chance at parenthood!

Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

New York is a glorious place for clearing your head and finding inspiration. Every time you step outside, you live a dozen lives.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

The power to change comes from within and they have to want to change. Instead, be a role model and encourage by example.

There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with.

I'm aware that dialogue isn't my strength. I use it as a device. I don't particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing.