Talking is what I do, but listening is my job.
It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.
It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.
The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself therein. . . provided that the mother is really looking at the unique, small, helpless being and not projecting her own expectations, fears, and plans for the child. In that case, the child would find not himself in his mother's face, but rather the mother's own projections. This child would remain without a mirror, and for the rest of his life would be seeking this mirror in vain.
There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone.
It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.
I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.
How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.
It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the country in the best shape.
But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.
Songwriting never gets old. There's always stuff to write about.