Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle.

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.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Marry, don't marry, ' Auntie Aya says as we unfold layers of dough to make an apple str

When we challenge ourselves with goals requiring us to stretch beyond previous accomplishments, we become more sensitive to our true potential.

How do you know you have a servant's heart? Look at your reaction when you are treated like one.

To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.

To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.

Without my big brother, I probably literally wouldn't be here.

God made only one you and He threw the mold away.

I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.

I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.