It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.

We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.

Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

The message sent is not always the message received.

We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.