The best thing to spend on your children is your time.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

Bringing a child into the world is the greatest act of hope there is.

Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.

We make butterflies by feeding caterpillars, not by trying to paste wings on them. Kids need to like themselves the way they are, and we can help them develop a positive self-image.

We all enter the world with fairly simple needs: to be protected, to be nurtured, to be loved unconditionally, and to belong.

If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are--and that's probably what they will become.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It's a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.

Pride is often used as a way to protect our hearts and to hide the truth. Pride causes us to shut down and build walls.

Freedom is something that you give yourself and no one else can ever take away.

Brace yourself, Savannah Daly. I’m taking you home to meet the family.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.

I have no known marketable skills.

Financial peace of mind is not determined by how much we make, but is dependent upon how much we spend!

Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.