The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.

Jack, " said Charles, "he's making up words again.""Yes, " Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?

I close my eyes and melt in its embrace, basking in the sweetest balm of forgiveness: that for which one need not even ask.

God prefers your health and your obedience to your penance.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

You don't need to go to the ends of the earth, you don't need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it's invariably on our doorstep.

Fish recognize a bad leader.

Airplanes”. “It was cool to meet people that liked music as much as I did. As soon as we started writing together, it was pretty obvious

Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb