The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.

We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant.

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.

Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself.

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

If I see a door comin' my way I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door I'm sliding through the window.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.

Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.

The Beatles are, first and foremost, my favorite band of all time.

I'm the god of war, the resurrector of the horror-core. The carnivore, destroying you wasn't hard at all