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.

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are....Ten seconds of silence.

When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

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