Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.

A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.

Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them.

I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.

Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.

Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.

She thinks she is white, ' they used to sneer, and that was as bad as a curse.

Compensate the lack of love from the world with an abundance of self-love. Work on happiness inside. The external world will respond.

Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.

Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

From day one, my mantra has been - and will continue to be - that as a government we were there to serve the people, not the other way around.

God never breaks His promises.

Rolen's the perfect baseball player. It's his tenacity, his preparation, the way he plays. He tries to do everything fundamentally sound. And he puts the team team first-there's no fanfare with him.

Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up.

The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

Everyone says that looks don't matter, age doesn't matter, money doesn't matter. But i never met a girl yet who has fallen in love with an old ugly man who's broke.