“That's a parents' job, isn't it? To raise a child strong enough to leave and break our hearts?”

“It isn't up to me to break his heart; that's time's job.”

“Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job is to break the rule. The parent then corrects and disciplines. The child breaks the rule again, and the parent manages the consequences and empathy that then turn the rule into reality and internal structure for the child.”

“Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child,Love enough to break a heart”

“It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.”

“A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a 'child of Muslim parents' will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose -or reject- when she becomes old enough to do so.”