It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.

People have said, 'Don't cry' to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is, 'I'm too uncomfortable when you show your feelings. Don't cry.' I'd rather have them say, 'Go ahead and cry. I'm here to be with you.'

I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.

Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains ofgrowth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents.

I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.

I have really never considered myself a TV star. I always thought I was a neighbor who just came in for a visit.

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.