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.

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.

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.

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.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

Stephen King and Clive Barker can make amazing works, such people's book should be on your list.

Here rests his head upon the lap of earthA youth to fortune and to fame unknown.Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own.

In my heart, I've never left Brazil.

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

I never had disagreements with [Adolf Hitler], I never saw him in an unpleasant frame of mind.

If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.

The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'

Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.

While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside.