If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

There is no problem so great it cannot be solved.

There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem - it's reality.

Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

The best time to start giving your children money is when they will no longer eat it. Basically, when they don't put it in their mouths, they can start putting it in their bank.

You will never get what you want if you believe that you are not worthy of having it. God doesn't create us to be defeated.

The only person you should ever worry about not believing in you, is nobody else but yourself.

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.'

I truly believe there is a field of peace within and that it can be enlivened and brought to the surface to be enjoyed by all.

All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

I don't reread my books.

It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.

When you make something fetish, ashes and dusts will laugh at you, because they know even the most valuable fetishes will turn into dusts and ashes!

The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.