You don't raise kids. You raise carrots. You sponsor kids.

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it.

Children are not things to be molded, but people to be unfolded.

Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Just because we live in a world of chaos and madness doesn’t mean we have to subscribe to that sort of behavior.

Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world.

I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.

I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

If you're not prepared to do something in public, don't do it at all.

The biggest parts of healing and making myself whole is to accept all of the many parts of myself.