If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying 'YES' to love.

Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that children learn that life is a magic thing, if "not a rose garden." The parent's role is primarily to stand by with a good supply of band-aids.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes and not having all the answers, so long as we are willing to admit this and strive for personal betterment. Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out that they don't.

...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.

The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.