I Was A Gift To My Mother.

My Father Was Very Big On Marriage.

Okay Listen, You Think I'm So Inconsequential? Then Try This On For Size. All Those Who See Unworthiness When They Look At Me And Are Given Thereby To Denying Me Value - To You I Say, I'm Not Talking About Being As Good As You. I Hereby Declare Myself Better Than You.

If You Are Anxious About Death, Then You Don't Have A Sense Of The Oneness Of Things - You Feel That After Death, You Will Be No More.

If You Apply Reason And Logic To This Career Of Mine, You're Not Going To Get Very Far. You Simply Won't.

Child Psychologists Have Demonstrated That Our Minds Are Actually Constructed By These Thousands Of Tiny Interactions During The First Few Years Of Life. We Aren't Just What We're Taught. It's What We Experience During Those Early Years - A Smile Here, A Jarring Sound There - That Creates The Pathways And Connections Of The Brain. We Put Our Kids To Fifteen Years Of Quick-cut Advertising, Passive Television Watching, And Sadistic Video Games, And We Expect To See Emerge A New Generation Of Calm, Compassionate, And Engaged Human Beings?