And those handmade presents that children often bring home from school: They have so much value! The value is that the child put whatever he or she could into making them. The way we parents respond to the giving of such gifts is very important. To the child the gift is really self, and they want so much for their selves to be acceptable, to be loved.

You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.

I like you just the way you are.

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

Sometimes people are good, and they do just what they should. But the very same people who are good sometimes are the very same people who are bad sometimes. It's funny but it's true. Its the same isn't it, for me and . . .

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

It's a miracle when we finally discover whom we're best equipped to serve.