You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

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.

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

Healthy surrender means allowing yourself to "be" rather than being in a constant state of want.

Calculation never made a hero.

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

First rule, stick them with the pointy end!

He smiles then, and even though it is well past midnight, its as if the sun has just come out.

The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did about the future. Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that.

I've never really been a fan of violence. I'm more into the characters and their journey and those kinds of movies don't really allow for that. It's a different focus.