If it's mentionable, it's manageable.

A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know your trade?" "Yes, sir!" the young man replied proudly. "Have you ever made a mistake?" the older man inquired. "No, sir!" the young man answered, feeling certain he would get the job. "Then there's no way I'm going to hire you," said the master carpenter, "because when you make one, you won't know how to fix it.

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

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

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

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.

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.