Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.

A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.

Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them.

I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.

Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.

Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.

How terrible, " said Eragon, "to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to you."

Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away?

Distrust is like a vicious fire that keeps going and going, even put out, it will reignite itself, devouring the good with the bad, and still feeding on empty.

I'm not some character from a boys' manga." ~Yukio

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.

Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

it follows that if you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be happy with others.

Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye.