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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It’s pouring out, it keeps diminishing.

Spare the rod and spoil the Memorial Day rotisserie.

Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.

Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse.

Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.

It helps to read the sentence aloud.

Meditation is the only way you can grow. Because when you meditate, you are in silence, you are in thoughtless awareness. Then the growth of awareness takes place.

If it's your time to go, it's your time to go.

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.