We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

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

Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.

Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind ... but we won’t break.