To be compassionate in this hurting world means it will cost you something.

I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.

Joy is a decision, a really brave one, about how you are going to respond to life.

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation in the ‘village’ is one of the most destructive messages we daily write on the tablets of their hearts.

I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.

Nurturing a child’s sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child’s life.