The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

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.

If it's mentionable, it's manageable.

I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.

Very early in our children's lives we will be forced to realize that the "perfect" untroubled life we'd like for them is just a fantasy. In daily living, tears and fights and doing things we don't want to do are all part of our human ways of developing into adults.

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning...They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play.