I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

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.

It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.

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.

I like you just the way you are.