Deep and simple are far, far more important than shallow and complicated and fancy.

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

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

Just because somebody wants to be alone sometimes, it doesn't mean they don't love you.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern...what better gift?

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

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

In my own life, as the nearer I get to the end of life on this earth, the simpler I want to become.

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.

Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.

It's the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

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

One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness.

I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine?

I have really never considered myself a TV star. I always thought I was a neighbor who just came in for a visit.

It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us.

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

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

It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.

We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

I believe that those of us who are the producers and purveyors of television, I believe that we are the servants of this nation.

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

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.

Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.

It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.

Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinking or feeling unless you share it.

One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another.

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