Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.

What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.

Creativity stands at the center of all education.

A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages.

Do not underrate yourself trying to be somebody else.

I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.

I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!

Fathers should speak with their children.

Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.

The evidence of Jesus Christ is lives changed.