We can easily teach our kids hot to be kind, compassionate and respectful when we are kind, compassionate and respectful to them.

If you're using most of your energy to do stuff for your kids, then you'll have that much less energy to just be there for them.

The soul mate we marry can become an "ex, " but the soul mates we have in our children will be ours forever, until the end of our life.

Kids will remember less what we did for them and more how we spoke and reacted to them.

We honor our kids most when, while we guide or discipline them, we give them this gift of unconditional love by accepting them and respecting them for who they are, first and foremost.

We are our own children's "perfect" parents, and within us lie all the simple, yet profound qualities of inner perfection.

Maybe you’re not so bad after all.’He leant across the seat, jabbing his finger in the air. ‘If you tell anyone, I’ll deny it. I have a reputation to uphold, you know.

There is no cell culture for depression. You can't see it on a bone scan or an x-ray. Not everyone with depression will show the same behavioral symptoms.

Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.

... he was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories.

In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change.

I don’t predict a nonexisting future.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.