Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

There is a good deal of excellent research on child's play. It has shown conclusively that through play, with the freedom of action it allows and the stressless environment in which it occurs, children discover, relate to and define themselves and their world. ...It is, therefore, paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play.

I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as a birthday present.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving.

When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.

Love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.