Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.

The burden of sin leads you to the need of a savior

It's easier to die if others around you are dying.

We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.

And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

One of the things Satan fears the most is that you would get the revelation of what you can do through prayer.

Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday.

The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day.

We all make terrible mistakes in our lives.

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.