I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

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.

Tell the truth no matter who it hurts.

there isn't shame in having shadows - we all have them to varying degrees. it's simply a part of being human

Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself.

Never Kill your What Ifs, But first be Grateful for What Is.

The dream of poor Bazin had always been to serve a man of the cloth.

Commerce seems to be covering every aspect of our lives now. Which me, because I'm a romantic, is sad for me to say.

If you rest too long the weeds take the garden.

Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

Build pockets of stillness into your life.