Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.

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.

Every heart blooms with a touch of love.

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

We were kissing like it was a long-forgotten language that we'd once been fluent in and were finding again

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

I definitely felt the pressure I wanted to live up to all of the expectations.

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.

You, yes, you, linger inside my heart The same you who stopped us before we could start.

Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.

I'm a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.