“Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.”

“I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.”

“I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.”

“I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of ...”

“Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.”

“When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”

“Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.”

“The world is unfair, oh yes, live your life to achieve.”

“The only way to make a spoilt machine work again is to break it down, work on its inner system and fix it again. Screw out the bolts of your life, examine and work on yourself, fix your life again ...”

“There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.”

“What is it about the sea? Is it because its there?”

“There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.”