“God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.”

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.

If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth who allow their kids to come back home.

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

Nothing I’ve ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

I would never be a sellout, but you can never be a sellout to kids. Kids is kids!

I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.