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.

The purpose of life is to listen - to yourself, to your neighbor, to your world and to God and, when the time comes, to respond in as helpful a way as you can find ... from within and without.

It may take months or years for a wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen.

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that seemed to livein our room at night. Nevertheless, those memories are still there, somewhere inside us, and can sometimes be brought to the surface by events, sights, sounds, or smells. Children, though, can never have grown-up feelings until they've been allowed to do the growing.