When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.

No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less. / Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.

When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.

I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.

Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there's no one else to turn to / you can call on each other / and count on each other ... / because each other / is all you have.

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.

The challenge for us is to find some response that actually inspires change rather than clinging to the old ways that cause resentment, and more importantly, distract from the real problem.

How many losses does it take to stop a heart, to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?

Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

I had the feeling of being crushed under a rock till I could see only one crack of light, and that was the love of God.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

Let's cause some senators distress.

You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.

Anyone who's ever worked with Meryl Streep always says the same thing: can that woman act! And what's with all the Hitler memorabilia?

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.