To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.

Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.

The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.

Each of us is responsible for creating an environment of warmth and consideration for those we love. I have always tried to define a good day not in terms of one in which all things were made right and comfortable for me but rather, as a day in which I have been able to make another's day more loving and special for them. We must treat each other with dignity. Not because we merit it but because we grow best in thoughtfulness.