Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

It is important for children to understand that some of the disappointment their parents feel for them is often really the parents' disappointment in their own lives.

Unfortunately, some parents simply don't love their children. Probably they don't even love themselves. That may be the heart of their problem. Having parents like this is a terrible burden for any child and can shadow him all through life. It can even destroy him.

Before you decide to have an argument, think about what you really want to accomplish. Do you just want to let your feelings out, or is there a point you are trying to make? What is it?

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Each child should try to see in his parents the children they previously were. Each parent should try to see in his child the adult he seems to be becoming.

In other relationships, it may be permissible to overpower people, but not between people who are living together. That relationship is supposed to be between equals.

Although everyone fights, few people know how to have a good argument, an argument that clears the air and makes it less likely a future argument will take place on the same subject.

From time to time, everyone distorts. We all tend to believe what supports our side of the question and doubt what weakens it. When we are under stress, we tend to believe what we need to believe.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.