Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have. The same holds true for families: It's not how many people there are in a family that counts, but rather the feelings among the people who are there.

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done

If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered over, put out of sight, doomed to inactivity, yet what a glorious harvest awaits it!