“Be an encourager. Scatter sunshine. Who knows whose life you might touch with something as simple as a kind word.”

“Be kind to everyone - you don't know what cross they're bearing and how sweet that kind word might ring.”

“If you said more words to him than "mommy'll be back", he might know something!”

“Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.”

“There are people who still know how to thank. Thank you, a simple word that shows gratitude, a gesture in extinctinction.”

“If our love were but more simple,
We should take Him at His word;
And our lives would be all sunshine
In the sweetness of the Lord.”

“You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll be like sunshine to me.”

“Cause everyone whose life you touch to feel worthy. Give everyone a sense of their own worthiness as a person, a sense of the true wonder of who they are. Give this gift and you will heal the world.”

“Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; —& they are the life, the soul of reading; — take them out of this book for instance, — you might as well take the book along with them.”

“The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.”