The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.

It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.

Children long to know that they are lovable. And there are ways that technology can help with that. But ultimately it's their relationships with their parents, their grandparents, their peers, and their teachers that help them to know that for sure. A child can learn the word "hug" and the letters h-u-g through a computer, but a computer can never give the child a hug.

For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another.

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

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.

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.