Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant.

We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.

Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself.

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

It is okay to date and experience all the excitement, thrills, and passion that romance offers, but let the love of your life be yourself.

Government is build on secrets.

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.

Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honor that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics.

Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

the windy sky Cries out a literate despair.