Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.

In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.

Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.

I have really never considered myself a TV star. I always thought I was a neighbor who just came in for a visit.

I believe that appreciation is a holy thing--that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something sacred.

Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

My hope for all of us is that 'the miles we go before we sleep' will be filled with all the feelings that come from deep caring--delight , sadness, joy, wisdom--and that in all the endings of our life, we will be able to see the new beginnings.