It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!

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.

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.

A peculiar sort of chaos looms beneath the pretense of peace.

You cannot solve a problem in the same frequency in which it was created.

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

When autumn comes, it doesn't ask. It just walks in, where it left you last. And you never know, when it starts; until there's fog inside the glass around your summer heart.

The more fears we walk through, the more power we reclaim.

You belong wherever you want to belong.

I like the values in Flicka, and I wanted to do a movie my kids could see and be proud of.

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.