Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning...They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play.

When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is NOT seen. Real strength has to do with helping others.

Love begins with listening.

All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend the poet Kenneth Koch once said, You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle.

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.

The real drama of life is never centerstage. It's always in the wings.