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

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.

Creativity stands at the center of all education.

We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.

Proof ... was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made.

You see, as far as the man's personality goes, there's no one who can touch Fred Astaire. He's unique.

There is no such thing as loving or believing too much.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.

There haven't been many credible electronic covers records.

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

Or whatever politically correct spiritual representation of universal goodness you happen to believe in.

But if your boyfriend, out of nowhere and with no advance warning whatsoever, dumps you for no apparent reason, is it really about you? Or is it all him?