More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another. Whether the other be an adult or a child, our engagement in listening to who that person is can often be our greatest gift. Whether that person is speaking or playing or dancing, building or singing or painting, if we care, we can listen.

Attitudes are caught, not taught.

I don't want to eat anything that has a mother

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.

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

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