There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.

Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.

Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

You character and action will reveal your purpose.

Magic doesn’t work when you’re sad.

My luck was my father not striking oil... we'd have been rich. I'd never have set out for Hollywood with my camera and I'd have had a lot less interesting life.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

I have already prepared my counter proposal. It reads thusly: you may strategically place your wonderful lips upon my posterior and kiss it repeatedly!

It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.

It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.

Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was.

Rich Christiansen is one of the most insightful, practical and cost-conscious entrepreneurs in the world today. Listen to Rich. He won't steer you wrong.

Savor what you are and not what everyone else wants you to be.