Attitudes are caught, not taught.
I have really never considered myself a TV star. I always thought I was a neighbor who just came in for a visit.
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.
What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too.
Play is really the work of childhood.
It’s a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God.
The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.
Those of us who are in this world to educate-to care for-young children have a special calling: a calling that has very little to do with the collection of expensive possessions but has a lot to do with worth inside of heads and hearts.
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.
Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.
Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I’m concerned, is certainly a prerequisite of love. One of the most essential ways of saying ‘I love you’ is being a receptive listener.
Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.
Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.
It’s a miracle when we finally discover whom we’re best equipped to serve.
I’ve always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I’ve always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.
We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.
All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend the poet Kenneth Koch once said, You aren’t just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!
Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted.