Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.

A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need.

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.

Everything that happens is either a blessing, which is also a lesson, or a lesson which is also a blessing.

The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt.

More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment to us, as we are for him.

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.

Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you."Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.

I only stayed because you turned the lights out.

Death grows friendlier as we grow older.

India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).

Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

God uses everything for good in our lives.

Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.