You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.