Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

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

Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.

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.

Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy being directed toward growth as a competent individual may open up some new possibilities.