From a child's play, we can gain understanding of how he sees and construes the world--what he would like it to be, what his concerns are, what problems are besetting him.

What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.

Unless someone has lived your life, no one can live your dream!

Get rich. Live life to the fullest. Destroy the world.

You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper

If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.

The soft heart is not a thing to harden but a treasure to protect. For soft hearts extend mercy, compassion, refuge, and God’s redemption to the world.

Slow as your own dubious grace.

In a sense, being a full-time writer is less fun because there's no office to go to anymore, there's no set routine, there's no schedule. It can be quite isolating.

.... When you have no voice, you don't exist

The first zucchini I ever saw I killed it with a hoe.

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.