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" My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off. "

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" What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. "

" The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. "

" You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most essential factor is to love your neighbor. And to love you. "

" All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love. "

" When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits. "

" The way to anybody's heart is through a thoughtfully-prepared, beautifully-executed, lovingly-presented meal. "

" I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. "

" Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. "

" We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children grow up so fast. But they don't take the time to sit down and talk to each other. The last bastion of getting together is around the table. "

" Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise. "

" The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street. "

" Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. "

" I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. "

" I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover. "

" We all need each other. "

" Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. "

" What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. "

" Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. "

" A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. "

" Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. "

" I've learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it! "

" I got the copyright for love! "

" It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. "

" If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. "

" Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. "

" Change is the end result of all true learning. "

" Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. "

" I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread. "

" Hugs make you feel psychologically more secure and together. "

" Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. "