It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.

I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or punishment. But I do believe they can be induced through relationships where parents and children are growing together. Such relationships are, I believe, build on trust, example, talk, and caring.

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.