Habitual caution ties and binds us; it is as if we were dressed always in clothes and shoes that were several sizes too small.

Some people just cannot take certain foods. That's all. People are allergic. Some people are allergic to orange juice, can you imagine? Orange juice is very healthy isn't it? Yet some people cannot drink it without having an allergic reaction.

Love your heart. It really is to love yourself to begin with and help everybody else in doing the same. But the heart being the center.

Beauty, well, it's one of the greatest, greatest gifts. I feel sorry sometimes because people are so worried and so involved in something that they don't have even five minutes to look at something beautiful.

Very often mothers go to work right away after the child is born and, unless the father or someone else stays home, this is quite serious. A baby has to be near its kin most of the time when he is little for three, four or five years. To give him this grounding, this feeling of connection, this feeling of relationship, is the most important thing.

Teenagers have to be sustained; they have to be given something to live for and something that involves them without having to make a child, a human being.

I call children "our ultimate investment."