Why did you throw sand when I just told you not to?"What child says, "Hmm, why did I? I guess there's no good reason. Thanks for pointing that out. It won't happen again.

There's a world of difference between, "Look at this mess you made!" and "I don't like to see food on the floor!

Six o'clock means very little to a three-year-old. It works better to say "after dinner, " or "as soon as the baby takes her morning nap.

We can't give a child a natural consequence. The only truly natural consequences are the ones found in nature.

Studies find that kids who are punished are more likely to misbehave in the future. Punishment actually increases the undesired behavior.

You have to make sacrifices for the things you believe in. If you don’t, what’s the point in believing in anything?

Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness and hypocrisy.

It's easy enough to smile at a man if you want to capture his attention, but once you realize he's not really looking at you, that perhaps he never really saw you, smiling becomes much more difficult

Just because you've made mistakes doesn't mean your mistakes get to make you. Take notice of your inner critic, forgive yourself, and move on.

A true leader always feels that it's truly wise to be considered a fool by those who are not actually nice, and actually not nice to be considered a wise by those who are truly fools.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

Trying to get your sexual partner to make a monogamous commitment to you is not a loving thing to do; it's selfish.

The demand of our people in 1980 is not for smaller government or bigger government but for better government.

Because there is no ego, God can flow through you; great creativity becomes possible.

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.