The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

Richard Bach, “Illusions”

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

Jim Rohn

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Helen Keller

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

A quiet man, is a thinking man. A quiet woman, is usually mad.

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.

Terence

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

Richard Bach, "Illusions"

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brigham Young

What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling.

Lionel from Maid in Manhattan

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.

David Bly