The purpose of life is to listen - to yourself, to your neighbor, to your world and to God and, when the time comes, to respond in as helpful a way as you can find ... from within and without.

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.

The mouse that fears the trap has already been trapped.

Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it.

No matter how short or long your journey to your accomplishment is, if you don't begin you can't get there. Beginning is difficult, but unavoidable!

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

The public's imagination is rarely captured by bland temperance.

Progress has not brought about universal happiness...

It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.

People say love can be developed, but in the end, the only person you love is yourself. That's why you choose to love someone who can please you the most.

Let's not do that. Let's love people. Let's care about people. Let's repeal it now while we can.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.