One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent—or, for that matter, an effective human being—is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to “get into their world.

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse?

Children do better when they feel better.

When we really understand the fact of separate realities, we will stop spending so much time and energy trying to change the reality of others

What we do is never as important as how we do it.

Your mind is the canvas upon which you are the artist. What will you paint on your canvas today? Will you draw a stick figure or create a masterpiece...?

Because in the end, we die. It’s like Chekhov observed in so many of his plays: ‘in two hundred years, no one will even know we were here.

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain.

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.

Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.

If your selfish goal will be useful to humanity, then let your selfish goal be triumphant!

A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stores and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer's decision to choose one product or service over another.