I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.

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.

Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

That is the good stuff that comes into our life and it's based on the good stuff that goes out of our life!

Which is the best religion? [...] The religion that brings you closest to God.

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

Hey, God made us sexual creatures. If he wanted teenagers to wait that long, he would have made puberty start at twenty-five.

I didn’t create poverty. This church didn’t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind.

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.