Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.

Giving encouragement to others is a most welcome gift, for the results of it are lifted spirits, increased self-worth, and a hopeful future.

The purpose of pruning is to improve the quality of the roses, not to hurt the bush.

The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again.

For some, transformation comes quickly, but for most of us, the changes are gradual.

I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full.And I just can't explain...so I won't even try to.

Stop complaining if you did started your life slower than the rest, Pick yourself up and move

There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.

I know I shouldn't say this—I know it as surely as I know the earth is round and beats are evil—and yet here it comes: “It's not too late to change your mind.

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.