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

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 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.

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.

We have to know the truth about the past to discover out future.

Someone has said that death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life.

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

There's nothing interesting about looking perfect—you lose the point. You want what you're wearing to say something about you, about who you are.

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.

Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation.

Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.

I live in Los Angeles and I had been drinking one night, so I was on the walk of fame and I saw Tony Danza's star and I started urinating on it. Just yelling out, 'Who's the boss now?'