All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.

A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.

Once we are truly for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people.

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. You're probably doing things you don't want to do.

Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind.

Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on.

If grandparents want to have a meaningful and constructive role, the first lesson they must learn is that becoming a grandparent is not having a second chance at parenthood!

Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".

Every time a child is born, we have another chance.

. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.

Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24).

Sometimes good things the best things coincide fall apart.

She did not know that the wolf was a wicked sort of animal, and she was not afraid of him.

I'm not sure that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know that we're at war.

The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear - with water, with birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch.