There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

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.

Every secret deed lays opened before God.

I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

The ones who are in the Senate have to have a position.

Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible.

[Rural people] have a different lifestyle, and they don't want to change it. They're happy with the way things are. It's causing the party political problems.

Lack of sleep is only bad if you have to drive, or think, or talk, or move.

A girl's just as hot as the shoes she choose

Remember, the pain of rejection is nothing compared to the pain of regret.

Forget yourself! Think courage.

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.