If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people's hair, or dream up stories and act them out, or play the trumpet, or jump rope, or whatever you really love to do, and you love that in front of your children, that's going to be a far more important gift than anything you could ever give them wrapped up in a box with ribbons.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

Call them rules or call them limits, good ones, I believe, have this in common: they serve reasonable purposes; they are practical and within a child's capability; they are consistent; and they are an expression of loving concern.

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.

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

The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us.

To say that you are being carried is a declaration of enormous faith and hope.