“I think the greatest gift that anybody can give another is the gift of his or her honest self: in fact, it’s the only unique gift that we have to give in life.”


    “The space between the TV screen and the child is nothing less than sacred ground.”


    “By living and working with children, I’ve learned more about the child I was, the person who is always striving to grow within me.”


    “As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is.”


    “Laughing with someone else is the best kind of laughter. The difference between laughing at and laughing with is something children often need their parents’ help in understanding.”


    “The urge to make and build seems to be an almost universal characteristic, the expression of some deeper part of being human and a large part of children’s play.”


    “Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.”


    “It is child’s earliest caregivers who lay the groundwork for any child’s understanding of ‘I’ and ‘you’ and ‘we’.”


    “Solitude is different than loneliness and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.”


    “Have you had people in your life who have touched you—really touched you—inside-to-inside? Take a minute—just one minute—to think of one person who accepted the essence of your being.”


    “I think that God is the ultimate appreciator—having created us, God looks for everything that is good in us, everything that is healthy and creative and wise and kind.”