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

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" I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it. "

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

" I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way. "

" Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves. "

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

" 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! "

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

" The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex. "

" 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. "

" The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. "

" If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. "

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

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

" I was lucky to have such a loving, crazy family. I learned to give and share. "

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

" We all need each other. "

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

" If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated. "

" 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. "