Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

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.

So a half-breed goatsnake, a Yith, and a Ghast walk into a bar.

Intelligence is overrated. Two dogs who sniff each others’ butts learn more about each other in a moment than many humans understand about those they’ve known for a lifetime.

Though sleep was dearly needed, it was not welcomed, for even in sleep I was tormented.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming.

Jesus made saving repentance possible and He made baptism meaningful.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

When you are young, you are a little naive.

I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.