What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.

We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

I want you to get excited about who you are, what you are, what you have, and what can still be for you. I want to inspire you to see that you can go far beyond where you are right now.

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?

We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

Unfinished promises are the one thing we’ll always have to live with.

But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything.

Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.

Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.

You have no idea how much pain I'm in. It's like being cut open every day, bleeding onto the stones. I can't understand how any of you failed to see the blood.

French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.

If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for Iron Giant, and I'm not even on the screen.