The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we care about so deeply become endangered, we become enraged. And what a healthy thing that is! Without it, we would never stand up and speak out for what we believe.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too.

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

There's always someone who is trying to help.

Of course, I get angry. Of course, I get sad. I have a full range of emotions. I also have a whole smorgasbord of ways of dealing with my feelings. That is what we should give children. Give them ... ways to express their rage without hurting themselves or somebody else. That's what the world needs.