The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift, a gift we received from countless generations we never knew, a gift that only we now possess and only we can give to our children. That unique gift, of course, is the gift of ourselves. Whatever we can do to give that gift, and to help others receive it, is worth the challenge of all our human endeavor.

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

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

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why.

There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.