We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.

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.

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

Christians need to realize that they are free children of the almighty God

I believed almost every negative thing that I ever heard someone say about me.

I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.

Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.

It is our minds that create this world.

Images embrace us: they open up to us and close themselves to us in so far as they conjure up in us something that we could call an interior experience.

I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.

Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.