We are our own children's "perfect" parents, and within us lie all the simple, yet profound qualities of inner perfection.

If you're using most of your energy to do stuff for your kids, then you'll have that much less energy to just be there for them.

We can easily teach our kids hot to be kind, compassionate and respectful when we are kind, compassionate and respectful to them.

The soul mate we marry can become an "ex, " but the soul mates we have in our children will be ours forever, until the end of our life.

Kids will remember less what we did for them and more how we spoke and reacted to them.

We honor our kids most when, while we guide or discipline them, we give them this gift of unconditional love by accepting them and respecting them for who they are, first and foremost.

We're on the same boat but in different cabin

He howled in despair as his body was enveloped by a terrifying and sickening darkness.

They make other nations seem pale and flighty, But they do think England is God almighty, And you must remind them now and then That other countries breed other men.

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.

It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.

Dying is a really hard way to learn about life.

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

The core of the American set of beliefs has remained pretty constant.