Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness, and if we are wise enough to know that there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know, we can reenter paradise.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.

We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.

Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.

When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, "Why does God let this happen?" The better question to pose is to ask, "What kind of community should we be so that mental retardation isn't a barrier to the enjoyment of one's full humanity?"