I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'

Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

What is important to consider I think is the difference between what is imaginary and what is real and the fears are real.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self discipline.

Hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

When we talk about our feelings they become less overwhelming less upsetting and less scary.

What makes the difference between wishing and realizing our wishes Lots of things and it may take months or years for wish to come true but its far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that youll do all you can to make it happen.

This evening is as brief as the twinkling of an eye yet such twinklings is what eternity is made of.

Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.

In times of stress the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

It's really easy to fall into the trap of bellieving what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!

What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album.

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.