What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.

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.

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

Make the Bible part of your daily life, and ask God to engrave its truths on your soul.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

Promise is the capacity for letting people down.

Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.