Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.

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.

Raw ingredients trump recipes every time

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.

If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.

The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.

Their smiles are lies. Most smiles are.

With vampires, there is such a great tradition that you suddenly find yourself a part of. Each generation reinvents what that means to them.

The most important thing in my life is Christ.

Love is the true condition of human life.