Set aside predictable, regular times to give full attention without being distracted by other concerns while also creating a safe, familiar place for baby to spend time playing alone.

We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the youngest infant as a unique human being, not as an object

When you hold an infant, hold him not just with your body, but with your mind and heart.

Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.

An infant always learns. The less we interfere with the natural process of learning, the more we can observe how much infants learn all the time.

What infants need is the opportunity and time to take in and figure out the world around them.

Do less; observe more; enjoy most.

If infants are ready to do something, they will do it. In fact, when they are ready, they have to do it.

Allow the child to be authentic, to move, to feel the way they move, appreciating them for what they are.

Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them?

Remember, nobody can make another person fall asleep. How to relax and let sleep come is a skill your child, like everybody else, must learn all by herself.

Sometimes dead is better

The past is dead, let's focus on tomorrow instead.

I know everything I need to about a person by their hands. Eyes may be the window to ones soul but hands disclose the being.

In the modern world, human beings display little tolerance for waiting. We are addicted to fast food, instant messaging, and other conveniences of life. Patience is a lost virtue.

There is a reasonthat the worldis not black and white, for chaosdemands color.

I think one thing that is extremely important is to connect with people in order to be successful and bring the people in so that they become your partners.

In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.

Only through the Sacrifice it is possible for an inferior energy to be transformed into energy of a superior and different type.

I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.