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

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.

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.

Creativity stands at the center of all education.

They say if the love is true, then it’s easy. But that’s false. Love is complicated. It’s sticky. It’s bliss and it’s a mix of emotions. It’s not easy.

so dangerously beautiful but you will not dare to ask her or tell her how you feel love hurts in the worst ways

I'm not here only just for a visit

I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a perfect pirouette. I clutched it and held it tight.

All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.

'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.

Thankfully, God brought wise Christian friends alongside to help me discover life-transforming precepts in his Word.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

We need useless theory more than ever today.