You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

Big dreamers achieve more than big doubters.

Men are not influenced by things but by their thoughts about things.

Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward.

I just rediscovered my guitar.

A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.

You know, Mike Milken, the money that he has raised for cancer research has been remarkable.

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

Every day is a good day to examine our prime-time priorities.