When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

Real strength has to do with helping others.

There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.

Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life.

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.

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.