We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

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.

Never be seduced by the sweet promises of a better path

I am a free spirit. I am very impulsive. I put the most trust in people chance after chance, regardless of how they treat me.

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

New York has an electronic heart.

The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.

Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity... with some patches of seats left empty.

My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.

It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.

I cannot be a traitor, since I never swore fealty to the English king.