“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.”

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

The best teacher in the world is somebody who loves what he or he does & loves in front of you.

The people we trust with important talk can help us know that we are not alone.

When we treat children’s play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that’s to be found in the creative spirit. It’s the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

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

Like all of life’s important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.

People have said ‘don’t cry’ to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is ‘I’m too uncomfortable when you show feelings.

A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.

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

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.

You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

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.

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

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.

The beauty of a deer cannot make a wild lion kind.

Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I’d say, through a keyhole and not through a door.

Doubts are seen flowing away along with that special kind of blue in his eyes.

Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.