One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.

As a child, reality is whatever one makes of it.

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

We must become the people we want our children to be.

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.