When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.

Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.

We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

The big miracle you await will likely first appear in a small encounter or chance event. So always be aware and open, you never know what today will bring.

You understand my music.

True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

When I think of the pace that I drove my first race, everything was happening a million miles an hour. Now when I get in the car everything happens so much slower.

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

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

I want to get America's private sector growing and I know how to do it.

All companies are service companies; some also manufacture products.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.