Each person brings his or her own inner story to the story he or she is hearing and seeing. 人それぞれ、自分が聞いていたり見ていたりする話に、自身の内なる話を当てはめる。

When my mother or my grandmother tried to keep me from climbing too high, my grandfather would say, "Let the kid walk on the wall. He's...

Whenever I hear someone speak of privacy, I find myself thinking once again how real and deep the need for such times is for all human...

Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive...

It's not how many people there are in a family that counts but rather the feelings among the people who are there....

Knowing that dependence is both available and encouraged when it's needed makes it easier for young children to learn to be independent....

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort. 本当の自分を見付けるのは一生の仕事ですが、努力に値します。

Our parents gave us what they were able to give, and we took what we could of it and made it part of ourselves....

I have come to realize how important the limits we set for our children are for the development of their creativity....

All our lives, we rework the things from our childhood, like feeling good about ourselves, managing our angry feelings, (and) being able...

Grandparents are both our past and our future. In some ways, they are what has gone before, and, in others, they are what we will become....

It came to me ever so slowly that the best way to know the truth was to begin trusting what my inner truth was, and trying to share it....

It can help us and our children to remind ourselves that having angry feelings is a part of being human, whether we like it or not....

The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love....

What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. You're...

Even if it were possible to give 【a child】everything he or she asks for, we would be depriving that person of many ways of growing, many...

The child is in me still... and sometimes not so still. 私の中にはまだ子供がいて、たまにじっとしてないんだよね。

新聞の映画評欄で見て、「あれ？これ読んでないかも？」と気づき、読んでから映画を見に行こうと思ったら、もう公開終わっちゃってました、、、。 原書のタイトルはWitches、邦題は「魔女がいっぱい」。なんで映画はネズミが3匹何だろう？原書と色々違うのかもしれません。The...

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing. ひとりは孤独とは違いますし、（ひとりは）寂しいものになる必要はないのです。

Whether we're giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. That's one of the things that...