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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Instantaneous forgiveness can bring longstanding self-preservation, not to mention a cheaper Ralph's bill on Rolaids.

Never deprecate another person's sufferings even when imaginary.

Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you’d be miserable poor.

Astrology, the noblest of sciences.

We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.

Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.

I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.

I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.

God uproots the vine that He Himself has not planted.