It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

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.

Heath Ledger died from the joker, so far the darkness killed him... but why we don't explore it?

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.

It's better to put yourself out there and get hurt than to never take the chance at all.

Ah me! why may not love and life be one?

This was the gift of recovery, he thought. The ability to be here in this moment with the female he loved and be fully aware, fully awake, fully present. Undiluted.

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.

The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.

I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.

Being with the Dap-Kings is like being an athlete.