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

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

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

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

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

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

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

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'

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

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

What is important to consider I think is the difference between what is imaginary and what is real and the fears are real.

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

Hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

When we talk about our feelings they become less overwhelming less upsetting and less scary.

What makes the difference between wishing and realizing our wishes Lots of things and it may take months or years for wish to come true but its far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that youll do all you can to make it happen.

This evening is as brief as the twinkling of an eye yet such twinklings is what eternity is made of.

Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.

In times of stress the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

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

If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

It's really easy to fall into the trap of bellieving what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!

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

I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.

Money comes and goes but your inner feelings your gut feelings your manhood your womanhood whatever that stays with you. That dont go anywhere. So you either proud of who you are and how you handle situations or you not. If you handle a situation wrong you it will haunt you.

The audience should go out and see 'Shark Night 3D' because you can bring your whole family.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

Honestly, what keeps me grounded is my faith and my value system.

Icy pillars of serenity, spun from airy mist, entered my quiet vision in echoes of worlds unknown.

Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.

There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

I'm a great believer in not over-thinking lyrics. You might become technically better as a songwriter, but you lose what originally made your songs great.

In 'Summer and Smoke,' I was supposed to be a plain-Jane wallflower, and instead, I had all these costumes. I looked like a Barbie doll.

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.

There is an attitude that we should be able to have everything. No, you shouldn't be able to have anything. I'd like a helicopter, but I can't afford a helicopter, so I don't buy one. People are buying stuff they can't afford on credit. I bought my Ford hybrid with cash.

If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?

I love writing. I feel more connected to that than I do a lot of the other things.

The eyes of others are our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

I have a knife collection.

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.

Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive.

I love New York City; I've got a gun.

I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.

I think it's really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That's something I strive for.

Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing.