Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

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

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.

The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us.

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people's hair, or dream up stories and act them out, or play the trumpet, or jump rope, or whatever you really love to do, and you love that in front of your children, that's going to be a far more important gift than anything you could ever give them wrapped up in a box with ribbons.

Play is really the work of childhood.