Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life.

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

It's the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

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.

There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.