The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need.

The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.

Everything that happens is either a blessing, which is also a lesson, or a lesson which is also a blessing.

The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.

Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt.

More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment to us, as we are for him.

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Whenever I get depressed, I raise my hemlines. If things don't change, I am bound to be arrested.

Scorsese, Spielberg, Tarantino, Peter Jackson - all of you: I'm here, I'm ready. I can do funny faces, I can sing, I can dance. Hire me!

We are Americans, and the future belongs to us.

We all know the huge problem there is with entertainment in general leaving out women. Especially as actors, we know there are fewer great parts for women.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

I have made it a principle to give advice that does not serve my personal interest but rather the common interests.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But being happy with him now means.

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products