All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.

There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.

What I cannot touch, remains a memory. I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can never be.

The cruelest thing you can do tosomeone is force them to hurt alone

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

It's a great feeling as a coach to see your athlete run well, hearing the oohs and aahs as she picks people off.

I think it's fair to say there's some significant portion of the community that doesn't feel they can take the Charlotte police at their word.

In a boom, envy; in a bust, anger.

I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.

I'm not a writer. I haven't written anything.

I cried today. I wasn't sad. You showed me beauty that I had only seen in books and dreams. I now see it in you.

Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.