As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.

It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.

Anyone who has ever been able to sustain good work has had at least one person--and often many--who have believed in him or her. We just don't get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others.

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.

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.