Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

She was surprised at how tiny it seemed now. She supposed the school was just as big as it had ever been only her eyes had grown used to looking at bigger things.

I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrowful--is fulfillment. The fullness of life is open to all of us.

The world was hers for the reading.

All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.

I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.