When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.

What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too.

I don't believe that children can develop in a healthy way unless they feel that they have value apart from anything they own or any skill that they learn. They need to feel they enhance the life of someone else, that they are needed. Who, better than parents, can let them know that?

There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.

Attitudes are caught, not taught.

My hunch is that if we allow ourselves to give who we really are to the children in our care, we will in some way inspire cartwheels in their hearts.

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