The best gift you can give your children is to keep yourself emotionally, physically, spiritually and intellectually healthy.

I believe adopting free unstructured play, within an appropriate framework, has rich potential in bringing up happy, well-balanced and resilient children.

The language we use is extremely powerful. It is the frame through which we perceive and describe ourselves and our picture of the world.

Help your child see others' emotions as well as experiencing his or her own without imposing your judgment.

We must remain calm as parents and try not to lose control of ourselves, when we become parents. For how can we expect our kids to control themselves if we can’t do it? That seems unfair.

Worrying about life’s circumstances of those I love, but over which I have no control is a dangerous, never-ending and pointless game to play.

When your kids get excited, let them have that feeling and share the excitement with them. Sharing makes it bigger.

They shall arrive in a murmurAnd shall disappear into fog and earth

One lost easiest what one held in one’s arms— never what one left.

True friends are placed together for the purpose of accomplishing great achievements that help others.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

I grew up with Frank Sinatra and it has taken me a long time to get to a place where I really enjoy [U2's] music.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off

I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I imagine that I'm not approaching fiction or films in a particularly cinematic way.

I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one – it wasn’t doing what I was doing.