Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.

When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.

We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

There is nothing that can satisfy a tasty soul accept the living water.

The thought had crossed my mind, that in order to save this world from Hell, I might have to become the Devil.

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.

Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.

The Lord's supper is memorative, and so it has the nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying to a dear surviving friend.

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.

What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.