Love Isn't A State Of Perfect Caring.

It Would Have Been Sad For Me To Spend My Life Just Trying To Superimpose Stuff On People Rather Than Trying To Encourage Them To Look Within Themselves For What's Of Value.

Love Is At The Root Of All Healthy Discipline. The Desire To Be Loved Is A Powerful Motivation For Children To Behave In Ways Thatgive Their Parents Pleasure Rather Than Displeasure. It May Even Be Our Own Long-ago Fear Of Losing Our Parents' Love That Now Sometimes Makes Us Uneasy About Setting And Maintaining Limits. We're Afraid We'll Lose The Love Of Our Children When We Don't Let Them Have Their Way.

Silence Is So Powerful, So Important. There Is So Much To Be Learned From It.

Most Of Us, I Believe, Admire Strength. It's Something We Tend To Respect In Others, Desire For Ourselves, And Wish For Our Children. Sometimes, Though, I Wonder If We Confuse Strength With Other Words—like 'aggression' And Even 'violence'. Real Strength Is Neither Male Nor Female; But It Is, Quite Simply, One Of The Finest Characteristics That A Human Being Can Possess.

Little By Little We Human Beings Are Confronted With Situations That Give Us More And More Clues That We Are Not Perfect.