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

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

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

I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience?

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.