It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.

Children do not experience our intentions, no matter how heartfelt. They experience what we manifest in tone and behavior.

Children need to trust and depend upon those who are responsible for them.

There is uncertainty in hope, but even with its tenuous nature, it summons our strength and pulls us through fear and grief— and even death.

we create ourselves as we go along

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect the unearned, either in love or in money; either in matter or in spirit.

I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

Take responsibility for the energy you bring.

The study of yoga makes me inspired.

I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.