“Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..”

“It takes no courage to be an optimist, but it takes a great deal of courage to have hope.”

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”

“Perhaps the biggest appreciation adjustment we need is toward the millions of men and women we call stepparents. We have taken for granted especially the stepparents who are raising no children of their own, and receiving no income from a significant other, but who have nevertheless chosen to invest love, time and money in children.”

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

“In China, literally in elementary school, we have to sit a certain way. You can't raise your hand anytime, you can’t speak in class. So, it takes a lot of courage and experimenting to kind of try to break that.”

“We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment”

“You think you can be as heroic as he was, simply by dying. But he doesn’t take courage to die. That’s easy. It takes courage to live.”

“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”

“We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.”