“Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.”

“The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do”

“When we are children, we think that adults know how the world works. When we become adults, we know enough about the world to know that we know nothing about it…”

“It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.”

“We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?”

“In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?”

“This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we — we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.”

“These problems do not disappear just because we do not hear about them. There is so much more happening around the world than what is communicated to us about the top stories we do hear. We all need to look deeper and discover for ourselves.... What is the problem? Where is it? How can we help to solve it?”

“We do not know nearly as much as we should about how children learn language, but if there is one thing we can say with assurance it is that knowledge of grammatical nomenclature and skill in sentence-parsing have no bearing whatsoever on the process.”

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.”