You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

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.

The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.

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.

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

I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.