A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them to provide some light along the way.

I don't go by the rule book-I lead from the heart not the head.

I knew what my job was it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.

The thing I don't like about L.A. is that it's very industry-focused. That's not bad for kids. It's not hedonistic or anything, not any more shallow than anybody in the Midwest. It's not that.

To know Paris is to know a great deal.

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

We like to buy stocks which we feel are undervalued and then we have to have the guts to buy more when they go down.

The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.