Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.

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.

For the day we accept that we have chosen to choose our choices is the day we cast off the shackles of victimhood and are set free to pursue the lives we were born to live.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

There's lots of interesting stuff happening in the world. Lots of good and bad things, and there's interest in music still, which there always will be, which is always a good thing.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

My grandchildren are on social media all the time, and they think they have friends. But it's not what I would've called a friend, ever.

I will become an old, wrinkly lady one day and what will matter are my friends and my family and people who love me.

The soul in man is greater than his fate.

Being in shape was not my goal. My body was a tool to test the capabilities of my will.

I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.