Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.

...but most of all he liked to listen to stories of real life. He smiled gleefully as he listened to such stories, putting in words and asking questions, all aiming at bringing out clearly the moral beauty of the action of which he was told. Attachments, friendships, love, as Pierre understood them, Karataev had none, but he loved and lived on affectionate terms with every creature with whom he was thrown in life, and especially so with man- not with any particular man, but with the men that happened to be before his eyes.But his life, as he looked at it, had no meaning as a separate life. It only had meaning as part of a whole, of which he was at all times conscious.

Leo Tolstoy

My mom was paranoid about my safety.

Jane Smiley

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

Steve Coogan

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Scott Sheddan

But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.

Carl Sagan

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Theresa

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

Irving Howe

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Source Unknown

I hear my silence talked of in every lane;The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.

Darshan Singh

When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

Jodi Picoult

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

Anthony Robbins

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.

Chris Moneymaker