Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.

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.

No one's fingerprints are exactly the same as anyone else's.

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.

I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.