Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. You're probably doing things you don't want to do.

Every time a child is born, we have another chance.

A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete, babies are almost the only remaining link in nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.

... no man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!

Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".

If you are a parent it helps if you are a grown-up.

Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting next to him in the visitors' room. For the half-hour that I watched they never exchanged a word, just held hands and looked at each other, and once or twice the man patted his wife's face. The feeling of love was so thick in that room that I felt I was sharing in their communion and was shaken all day by their pain, their love, something sad and also joyful: the fullness of a human relationship.