We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world.

If you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice

The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.

In North America ice was smaller because in Russia we have big ice and this is small ice and it's a more physical game. Russia has more technicals and this has more speed and is a more physical game.

Don't do cocaine. Don't race trains. And avoid AIDS situations.

Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life.

The path that is followed by most persons in the beginning of their spitirual search is the path of love, bhakti yoga.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

To be haunted by my heart is no threat.

The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.