Whoever alters a person's expectations changes his behavior.

We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential that we prepare them for it.

A child needs encouragement like a plant needs water.

Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.

We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around us simply by changing ourselves.

A misbehaving child, is a discouraged child

Children need encouragement like plants need water

A great many people fall in love with or feel attracted to a person who offers the least possibility of a harmonious union.

Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased.

The complaints which anyone voices against his mate indicate exactly the qualities which stimulated attraction before marriage.

The wish to gain complete possession of somebody is expressed most plainly by jealousy. Jealousy is never a sign of love. It only indicates fear of not being able to hold another person.

You can build your strength, If you read enough books!

There must be something to acupuncture - after all you never see any sick porcupines.

I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.

Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.

Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

Fate, Chance, God’s Will — we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate.

The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.