Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

Love begins with listening.

Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains ofgrowth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents.

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have. The same holds true for families: It's not how many people there are in a family that counts, but rather the feelings among the people who are there.

As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same than we are different. That may be the most essential message of all, as we help our children grow toward being caring, compassionate, and charitable adults.

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.