Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.

By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.

The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.

If it tries to take you, " Wren said, "I wont' let go.

Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own.

I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.

It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.

Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many north African fish dishes.