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.

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

Creativity stands at the center of all education.

No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.

Say, ‘Thank you, Phin.’ ”“Oh, please.”“Say, Thank youvery much, Phin. ”“I don’t think so.”“Say, ‘You are a great lover, Phin.’ ”“I’m out of here.

We can't control what others thinkWe might as well go ahead and live

The phrase "I dont know" is the most honest thing anyone could ever say.

The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.

No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.

We are Americans first, Americans last, and Americans always.

You don't have to move on to let go.

In times when nothing stood but worsened, or grew strange, there was one constant good: she did not change.

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco