Love begins with listening.

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.

You like a person not because of what they have but for what they truly are.

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

You can never know anything for sure.

Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.

Hands are the heart's landscape.

The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.